Simmons v. Blanchard

Roberts, Chief Justice.

This is a suit to establish a right to one undivided half of three hundred and twenty acres of land, patented to the heirs of Ezra W. Wiley, by appellants, as the heirs of his wife, Margaret J. Wiley, by a former husband, against John F. Blanchard, in possession, who claims title to the land under a claim of title from the administrator of said Ezra W. Wiley, who sold the certificate of Ezra W. Wiley, which had heen obtained in his name as a colonist of Mercer’s colony, and which certificate had been located on the land by one of the intermediate purchasers thereof.

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