Moyer v. McCullough

Blackford, J. —

This was a bill in chancery filed in the Marion Circuit Court in 1844, by William McCullough against Jacob Moyer, Jacob Beagle and wife, Abraham Snyder and wife, and George Moyer.

The bill alleges, inter alia, that the complainant, by means of a Canadian volunteer certificate, issued under an act of congress, located a certain quarter section of land situate in Marion county; that, afterwards, the register of the land office sold, by mistake, the same land to the ancestor of the defendants with notice of the location; and that, in pursuance of such sale by mistake, a patent for…