Carson v. Platt

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Benson, J.:

C. W. Carson commenced this action in the district court of Comanche county, October 4, 1904, to recover the possession of two eighty-acre-tracts of land to which he held the patent title. The defendant, Mortimer R. Platt, was then in possession of the land, and had been in such possession for more *637than five years, under a tax deed recorded September 6, 1897. This deed purported to convey 480 acres, including the lands in controversy. The descriptions were of eighty- and forty-acre subdivisions, all of which were contiguous, as shown upon…