Legal Opinion
Roby v. Eggers
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided December 17, 1891No. 15,265PublishedCited by 22 opinions
From the Porter Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtCoffey, J.
This was an action in ejectment commenced in the Lake county circuit by the appellant against the ap-pellee on the 13th day of January, 1875.
The land in dispute lies in a triangle formed by the State line and Lake Michigan, at the extreme northwest corner of the State.
The triangular tract was cut into lots by the United States survey.
The north lot is numbered one and the lot immediately south and adjoining number one is numbered two. It was swamp land, and was formally conveyed by the United States to the State of Indiana by Swamp Land Patent No. 4, on the 24th day of March, 1853. It is…
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