Irey v. Markey

— Suit to quiet title to land and for partition. Two answers remaining in the record as it comes to us are : That the plaintiffs’ cause of action did not accrue within fifteen years prior to the commencement of the suit, and that the cause of action did not accrue within twenty years prior thereto. The appellants were plaintiffs below, and by way of reply pleaded substantially the following facts: That on the 2d day of September, 1861, one Amos Parrett died intestate, owning the land in controversy. He left surviving him the appellant, who was his widow, and several children, who still…