Sturgeon v. Hitchens

On the 28d day of April, 1860, Hitchens proceeded before a justice of the peace against Sturgeon &nd Ricketts, for unlawful detention of real estate. The complaint was as follows:

“ Hmanu el Hitchens,

v.

George Sturgeon, and John Ricketts.

Court of John G. Anderson, JSsq., a justice of the peace of Switzerland county.

“Emanuel Hitchens, plaintiff, complains of George Sturgeon *108and John Ricketts, defendants, and says that on or about the 9th day of January, 1860, he was in the lawful and peaceable possession of a tract of land situate in Switzerland county, on Plumb creek, formerly owned and…