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George Wliitright against Reuben Helvey and others M. L. Spencer was appointed a commissioner to sell the land in suit—forty acres in Rock Creek township. Bond $2400.The case of Josiah First and Eliza Long against David E. First and Jane First, was on trial Monday afternoon. This suit involved the title to eighty acres of land in Rock Creek township. It was claimed by t he plaintiffs that about the year 1837 their maternal grandfather furnished the money to their father, Israel First, to purchase from the United States government the land in suit, the title to be taken in the name of his wife, (plaintiff’s mother); that Israel First-made the purchase of this land at the land office at Fort Wayne, but took the title in his own name instead of his wife’s name. Two years afterwards plaintiff’s mother died, ignorant of the fact that the title was in her husband’s name. First afterwards married the defendant, Jane First, and David E. First is a child of this second marriage. The title to the land remained in Israel First’s name until his death in 1887, when the plaintiffs brought this 6uit, claiming that tbeir mother was the equitable owner of the land, and that at her death the title descended to them as her surviving heirs. The defendants deny that there was any agreement to put the land in the wife’s name and that the plaintiffs are only entitled to such portion of the land as they would inherit from their father, the said Israel First. All the old residents of the neighborhood who have any recollection of the facts as they existed fifty years ago, were subpoenaed as witnesses in the case. Judge Dailey heard the evidence, but has not yet delivered his opinion in the case./I T*
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Huntington Herald
Huntington, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 22, 1889
Page 4
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