Day v. Patterson

Suit to quiet title. Judgement for the defendant. The case is as follows:

Ezekiel M. JDay filed his complaint in the Clark Circuit Court, alleging that he was the owner, by purchase from Marsh and Eiger, of a certain piece of ground containing *115about twenty-one acres; that when he purchased and paid for it, at the commencement of his ownership, there was a mortgage upon it, given by said Marsh and Kiger', to Wood, Abbott $ Co., which mortgage covered, not only said twenty-one acres, but about 380 acres in addition; that subsequently, said defendant, Patterson, purchased the remaining 380 acres…