John Doe on the demise } Coker Dewson & Sanderson
of Philip Dell } Ejectment
vs }
Adam Clay } McLin
Be it remembered that on
Tuesday the twelfth day of May in this same term before
the Honorable William A. Forward Judge of the Circuit Court
of the Eastern Judicial Circuit of Florida at the town of
Gainesville in the County of Alachua, comes the plaintiff
by Dewson and Sanderson his attornies and brings into
the said Court before the aforesaid judge thereof now here
his certain bill or declaration against Adam Clay in
a plea of Ejectment which said declaration follows
in these words that is to say - Richard Roe late
of said County & aforesaid who had been summoned
to answer John Doe of a plea whereupon the said
Richard Roe with force and arms & entered into
certain messuages barns Stables outhouses yards gardens
orchards fifty acres of arable land fifty acres of
meadow land fifty acres of pasture land two hundred
acres of woodlands with the appurtenances known and
described as South half of Lots number two & three
and lots numbers ten & Eleven of Section thirty (30)
Township Seven (7) Range twenty (20) South & East
which the said Philip Dell had demised to the said
John Doe for a term which has not yet Expired and
Ejected him from the said farm and other wrongs
to the said John Doe and against the peace and dignity
of the State of Florida and thereupon the said John Doe
by J.B. Coker his attorney complains that whereas
the said Philip Dell on the 1st day of September
1856 had demised the said tenement with the
appurtenances to the said John Doe to have and
to hold the same to the said John Doe and
his assigns from the 1st day of May - 1856 then last
past for and during and to the fall end and
term of seven years from thence next ensuing
and fully to be complete and ended By virtue
of which said demise the said John Doe entered
into the said tenements and appurtenances and
became and was thereof possessed for the |