Earle v. Simons

This action was commenced in the Lake Circuit Court on the 9th day of May, 1878. The venue was afterwards changed to the Porter Circuit Court. The complaint by appellee, upon which the case was tried, consists of two paragraphs. The first is in the ordinary form in actions of ejectment.' In it appellee asks a judgment for the recovery of the possession of the undivided one-half of'a section of laud in Lake county.

In tiie second appellee’s title is set up in detail, and it is averred that appellant had entered upon th.e land, and claimed to hold and own the same by a title paramount to that of…