Tevis v. Doe

Ejectment by Doe on the demise of Fletcher Tevis, jun., for nineteen and a half acres of ground, being a part of the north-east quarter of section 19, &c., in Rush county. Andrew Colliver and Joel Tevis were admitted defendants. They entered into the usual consent-rule, and put in the plea of not guilty. The cause was tried by the Court, without a jury, and there were a finding and a judgment for the plaintiff.

It was shown in evidence that the legal paper title to the land in question, was in Andrew Colliver; that it was conveyed to him on the 3d day of May, 1847, by George *130Hewitt, and wife,…