Jobe v. Patton

Appellants were the plaintiffs below. They were the children of Seaborn Jobe and his wife, Tildy. The latter died prior to 1901. Appellants’ suit was against A. Patton. They claimed title to the east half of the C. R. Patton 820-acre survey in Wood county by force of the statute of limitations of 10 years. In their petition appellants alleged that Patton was setting up some kind of claim to the land, and that the claim was a cloud on their title. They prayed for “judgment forever quieting them in their title,” and for a writ of injunction “enjoining the said A. Patton asserting any claim or…