Rivard v. Gardner

This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiffs in error, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered against them in the Circuit Court, whereupon they sued out a writ of error. The plaintiffs, on the' trial, deraigned title from the government to one John Sinclair, and then put in evidence a deed from John Sinclair to themselves, bearing date November 5, 1851. The defendants then offered the record of a suit in chancery in the Circuit Court of Sangamon county, in which county the land is situate. The suit was brought at the June Term, 1853, by said John Sinclair against the…