Martin v. Carlin

By the Court,

Cole, J.

This action was brought to recover 19 and 82-100 acres of land admitted to be in possession of the defendant below, who is . the appellant. The land is claimed as being a part of lot No; one in section twenty-three in township eight, range sixteen, in Jefferson county. The* section was included in the grant which was made by the general government to the territory for the purpose of aiding in the construction of the Rock River Canal. It is a fractional section, made so by the Rock river, which flows through it from the north-east to the south-west. The entire section,…