Ward v. Worsham

GAINES, Associate Justice.

The appellant was a settler upon the school lands of Marion County, situated in the county of Clay. The appellee having purchased of Marion County the entire survey, brought this •suit to recover of appellant the 160 acres upon which he resided and which was known as block No. 22. The defendant pleaded that he had settled upon the land in controversy in 1877 with his family, and that he had resided there as an actual settler ever since; that as such settler he had always claimed the prior right to purchase the tract, and that he had made repeated attempts to do so;…