Eastman v. Beiller

This suit is instituted to recover one-fourth of section No. 9, in township 10, north range, 12 east, which contains eight hundred arpens of land, and the whole of section No. 10, in the same township and range, containing a like quantity. The plaintiffs claim title to the one-fourth of section No. 9, under a patent from the United States to Hatton Middleton ; and their title to section 10, is under a patent to Joseph Adair, to which they set up an equitable title, alleging that Adair settled and improved the land fur Hatton Middleton, and that the confirmation in the name of Adair, was made…