Schoonmaker v. Doolittle

This is an action of ejectment, begun on July 27,1885, by appellee against appellant in the circuit court of Winnebago county, to recover a strip of land, 36 links wide and 32^°^. chains long, near the middle of the south-west fractional quarter of section 18, township 45, range 2, in the town of Harlem, in that county. The ease was tried before a jury in the court below, and verdict was returned, and judgment rendered in favor of appellee. Appellant appeals to this court.

In 1849, appellee and one David Goodhue, whose farms adjoined, agreed to buy the quarter section of land, above described.…