Long v. Wolf

The opinion of the court was delivered by

HortoN, C. J.:

This ‘was an action in the nature of ejectment, by plaintiff' against the defendant, for the recovery of 120 acres of land. The plaintiff claimed under the original or patent title; the defendant claimed upon the faith of a decree of the district court of Doniphan county, of September 15, 1876, rendered in an action then pending between G. I. and W. R. Stebbins, and plaintiff, and also under a tax deed *523of the date of November 30, 1876. On November 18,1875, G. I. and W. R. Stebbins, grantors of defendant, obtained a tax deed for the land…