Merrifield v. Weston

The material facts of the complaint filed by the appellee, against the appellants, are the following :

That Carey B. Johnson and others named, on the 2d day of October, 1871, filed their complaint in the Porter Circuit Court, against the plaintiff, alleging that they were the ownei’s in fee-simple of certain lands, describing them, lying in Porter county, State of Indiana; that said lands were well timbered,, the timber being of great value : hut the plaintiff avers that he was at the same time the owner and in possession of said lands, and has been the own er and in possession thereof ever…