Howe v. Shepard

FfULL-ER, C.

The contention here is whether the plaintiff, Wayne B. Howe, has acquired title to a quarter section of land in Edmunds county by the payment of taxes thereon for io successive 3rears under color of title or by possession for the prescriptive-period of 20 years. Prom decision adverse to his claim, the plaintiff appeals.

The facts are that in the year 1885 or 1886, one George Shepard came to Loyalton in Edmunds county from Stannard, Vt. His immigration was at the same time and from the same place as Augustus Fulsom, who was the father of plaintiff’s, first wife. Plaintiff’s wife was…