Higdon v. Wayne County Security Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Hobson—

Reversing.

The Wayne County Security Company brought this suit against John Higdon and others. It alleged in its petition that it was a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of New York and was the owner and in possession of a tract of land in Edmonson County known as the Walker Daniel 1,000 acre survey, described in the petition by metes and bounds; and that it and those under whom it claimed, had been in the actual, adverse and continuous possession of the land for a period of more than fifty years; that the defendants within the…