HEIDEITTER U. ELIZABETH OIL-CLOXH 00. 189 �I find as f acts in the case : �(1) That the premises in cbntroversy, being the property of one Edward G. Brown, vere transferred by the said Brown to Charles L. Sicher, by deed of conveyance bearing date on the twentieth of August, 1872. �(2) That the premises were occupied and used by the said Sicher as a distillery, and were seized by the revenue of&- cers of the United States on the twenty-fourth of Januar^, 1873j for alleged violations of the revenue laWs of the United States. . �(3) That an information was filed by the United States against the said real estate, inter alia, on the fourthof Feb- ruary, 1873, and a decree of condemnation was entered by default, in the district court of the United States for the dis- trict of New Jersey, on the twenty-fifth of Pebruary, 1873; that a sale thereof took place on the twenty-second of May following, when the said Edward G. Brown became the pnr- chaser for the consideration of $1,500; and that a conveyance was executed and delivered to ^he purchaser, for the said premises, on the twenty-ninth of May, 1873. �(4) That Edward G. Brown sold ahd conveyed the same to the Easton Manufacturing Company, on .or about Decem- ber 17, 1874, and that the defendant corporation claimstitle by Bundry mesne conreyances since that date. �I further find as facts ih the case : ' �(5) That while the said Charles L. Sichex had the posses- sion of the said premises, and befofe he received a deed therefor, to-wit, on the twenty-fifth of June, 1872, he com- menced the erection of a building thereon. �(6) That on the twenty-first of Pebruary, 1873, the plain- tiff, Heidritter.fileda claimin the clerk's office of the county of Union for $1,711.22, for materials furnished in the erec- tion of said building from June 21 to August 23, 1872; that on the same day he caused to be issued a summons on said claim, and that on the fourteenth of June following a judgment was entered thereon in the circuit court of the county of Union. �(7) That on the thirteenth of March, 1873, one Ferdinand ��� �
