Pierce v. Spear

Black, C.

The appellant sued the appellees, James W. Spear, Zerelda C. Spear, Mary J. Phillips and Addison Phillips, husband of said Mary, to recover possession of certain real estate in Scott county.

It is assigned that the court erred in its conclusions of law in a special finding. The court concluded that the law was with the defendants on facts which, omitting some particulars for the sake of brevity, were in effect as follows:

The appellee James W. Spear, in the spring of the year 1876, being in possession of the land in question and claiming title thereto, conveyed it by deed, for a…