Patrick v. Goolsby

This is an ejectment suit involving title to a ninety-two-acre tract of land.

The Chancellor held that the defendant had perfected his title to the tract by adverse possession, and dismissed the bill. The Court of Appeals reversed the Chancellor, except as to six or seven acres, which it held that the defendant had perfected his title to by actual enclosure for the statutory period.

About 1906 one of the defendant’s predecessors in title enclosed about five acres of this tract and used it for a pasture. In the spring of 1909' his successor in title enlarged the enclosure to about seven acres,…