Gorham v. Montfort

0. T. Montfort, as administrator of M. A. Bentley, filed his petition against Walter M. Gorham et al., praying to enjoin the defendants from interfering with the possession of lot of land number 33 in the 12th district of originally Dooly, now Wilcox county, and to cancel a certain deed as'a cloud upon his title. It was alleged in the petition: that the plaintiff was in possession of the land, and claimed title thereto under a grant from the State to his intestate, dated May 20, 1846; that the title on which the defendants based a pretended claim began with what purported to have been a deed…