Supreme Court of the United States March 5, 1883, 153 (Stebbins v. Duncan)

Me.'Justice

Woods

delivered the opinion, of the court.

This was an action of ejectment, originally brought by "William B. Morris, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, against Howard Stebbins, the plaintiff in error, for the recovery of a quarter section of land, originally situated in Madison County, Illinois, but when the suit was begun, situate in