Byers v. Janes

This suit was brought before a justice of the peace and six jurors, under the 17th section of the land law, passed December 14,1837, providing for settling the claims of different occupants. *530-531And tbe case was taken to tbe district court by a certiorari from that court. From tbe record presented in this court, it appears that there lias been no judgment rendered in tbe court below disposing of tbe case. There seems to have been a verdict of a jury, finding certain facts, on which the plaintiff prayed tbe court to enter up a special decree, which be then and there exhibited to the court, but…