Yeoman v. Younger

This is an action of ejectment, for eighty acres of land in Lawrence county. The petition was filed August 30, 1881, and is in the usual statutory form. The answer is a special denial and contains further the allegations that defendants were at date of suit and are the legal owners in fee of the land in dispute and rightfully in possession thereof. It was agreed that defendant, *425Younger, is the common source of title. The case was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury.

It appears from the record that the respondent, Wm. H. Younger, who was the guardian and curator of Ephraim…