Matthews v. Hoff

This suit was commenced in ejectment, in the name of Charles Hoff, by his guardian, William Crawford, against David Matthews, in the circuit court of Whiteside county, to the October term, 1879, of that court. There seem to have been three trials of the case in the circuit court, a new trial under the statute having been granted to each party. On the last trial, the court to whom the cause was submitted for decision, without the intervention of a jury, found that plaintiff was the owner in fee simple of the lands described in the declaration, and that defendant was guilty of withholding the…