Logan v. Jelks

Jelks sued appellants in ejectment, claiming-under parties who had entered-the land at the United States office at Batesville, on the first of Januaiy, 1852, and obtained a patent on the first of September, 1856. He alleges that from the date of the pateut until some time in 1876, when defendants obtained ^possession, he and those under whom he claimed were in the continuous, peaceable possession of the land, holding in person or by tenant, by virtue of said patent, adversely to all others. The patent and some mesne conveyances are exhibited.

Appellants, in their answer, denied the right of…