Bates v. Wright

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

In this action of ejectment by T. G-. Bates against Nathan Wright, the trial court directed a verdict in favor of Wright, and the correctness of this ruling is challenged by the appeal.

Bates asserted title by deed from S. N. Taylor, who obtained a patent covering the land on May 2, 1887, and also by adverse possession. Wright denied Bates’ title, and pleaded title in himself for a portion of the land by adverse possession for more than thirty years. It developed on the trial that, although the land was covered by the Taylor patent, it lay within the…