Stephens v. Drake

GLADNEY, Judge.

Mrs. Marie S. Stephens and her children, Harry Scheen Stephens, Thomas Paxton Stephens, Jr., Frederick Leonard Stephens, and Leonard Waller Stephens II, instituted this, an action of jactitation or *675slander of title, against the defendant, Luther A. Drake, asserting themselves to be the lawful owners in actual physical possession of certain described property and charging that the defendant was slandering their title thereto by claims of ownership. The defendant excepted to the action alleged upon by plaintiffs by denying the sufficiency of their possession, and by averring…