Willis v. Hudspeth

1. On the trial of an action for land, where the defendant > sought to set up prescription and adverse possession under written evidence of title for seven years, the court did not err in admitting in evidence, as color of title, a tax deed executed by the sheriff on January 1, 1884, conveying the premises in dispute to one under whom the defendant claimed, together witlí a tax fi. fa. issued by the tax-collector on September 23, 1883, for the taxes of that year and against the land in dispute as wild land, which fi. fa. was attached to the deed and made a part thereof; the instruments being…