2 Blackf. 230 | Ind. | 1829
The plaintiff in error was the complainant below. He states in his bill that, in 1825, he bought a tract of land from Rossell Sturdevant, received a title-bond for it at the time, and afterwards, in 1827, obtained from him a deed; that Rossell Sturdevant had bought the land, bona fide, from Azor Sturdevant, in 1817, who, in the same year, had bought it from John Bates. He further states that, in 1819, Schoonover, the as
We have no doubt, but that the decision of the Circuit Court is correct. One short reason is, that the complainant had every opportunity, in the action of ejectment, to defend the cause on the ground of his deed from Rossell Sturdevant. The bur-then of proof of that deed’s being insufficient, for want of a title in Rossell Sturdevant, lay upon the plaintiff in that action. The decree in chancery against Rossell Sturdevant, was no evidence in the ejectment against the present complainant, because he was not a party to that suit; and, consequently, not bound by the decree in it. By the present bill, the complainant only seeks for an opportunity to oppose the charge of fraud, made to the deed by which his grantor claimed the property. The opportunity to do that was given to the complainant in the
The decree is affirmed with costa,