Goins v. Catron

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Tilford

Affirming.

Appellee sued appellant setting forth his paper title to and consequent ownership of a tract of land containing 8 acres. He further alleged that appellant was asserting ownership of the land and thus casting a cloud upon his title; that appellant had cut and removed timber from the land and planted and removed crops, to appellee’s damage in the sum of $250, and had threatened to and would continue to trespass unless enjoined from so doing.

The prayer of the petition was that the appellee’s title he quieted; that he he adjudged the owner of…