Robbins v. Barron

MaestoN, J:

Barron commenced an action of ejectment in July, 1870, to recover possession of certain lands in St. Clair county. The cause was tried by the court without a jury, who found the facts, so far as is necessary to a decision of this case, to be as follows:

That the defendant, Lucinda A. Bobbins, was the owner of the land in question by patent title from the United States under patent dated in 1836; that the plaintiff Barron had a number of tax titles upon said lands, all of which the court found to be invalid, because, for certain years, the lands were not subject to assessment, and…