Barnett v. Wolf

This was ejectment, for the recovery of a quarter section of land, in the LaSalle circuit court. On the trial below, plaintiff traced title from her grandfather, the patentee, through her mother, to herself; and to rebut her prima facie title, appellee introduced a decree of the county court of LaSalle county licensing the executor of John Palmer, the grandfather of appellant, to sell this land for the payment of debts ; a deed from the executor, Wm. C. Bichardson, on a sale under the decree, to Edward C. Henshaw, with an order of the court approving the sale; also mesne conveyances, so as to…