Gunderman v. Gunnison

October, 1853, complainant purchased of the State forty acres of school land in Clinton county at the price of $160, and paid down $40 and received a certificate of purchase in the usual form. December, 1857, he made an assignment of the certificate, absolute in form, to defendant. At this time they had for many years been friends and neighbors and complainant was indebted to defendant in the sum of about $12 or a little less. Complainant was in occupation of the lot and has since continued in it. He has paid the most of the taxes and interest to the State, and has used the land and made some…