Hamilton v. Badgett

— This is an appeal from a judgment in an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiff in the Circuit Court of Butler County, to recover possession of eighty acres of land therein described. The answer was a general denial, a claim of title in fee to the land, an allegation that the plaintiff claims some interest therein adverse to the defendants and that the same be determined in this proceeding. There was a judgment 'for plaintiff, from which defendants appeal.

This case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, the pertinent portions of which are as follows:

By an act of Congress…