Pierce v. Banta

This action was brought on a bond given on an appeal to the Supreme Court, from a judgment in ejectment. In the court below, the plaintiff recovered judgment for $500.

The facts, as gathered from the record and briefs, are as follows:

In 1873, one Catharine Peters was the owner of three lots of real estate in the city of Logansport, on which she and her husband executed a mortgage to one Crawley, to secure a debt. The taxes for 1873 and 1874 on the lots having become delinquent, they were sold at tax sale to one Uhl, who, in 1877, obtained a deed and went into possession on his tax title. In…