Doe on the demise of Lafontaine v. Avaline

Ejectment for a section of land in Miami county. Trial by the Court, and judgment for the <jbfendant.

The evidence, consisting partly of admissions, is all made part of the record, in the form of an agreed case.

Both parties claim title through Catharine Lasselle; the plaintiffs as the heirs at law, the defendant as the vendee of the devisee. Catharine was a daughter of the Miami chief, Richardvitte. Her first husband, Lafontaine, was also an Indian, and, at one time, head chief of the nation. After the death of Lafontaine, she married Francis D. Lasselle, to whom she devised the section of…