Newman v. Sharp

MOREMEN, Justice.

Appellees, trustees of the Church of God at Goldbug, filed suit to quiet title to a parcel of land. By an amended petition they asked that appellant be ejected from their property. Appellant, by answer and counterclaim, set up the source of his title and alleged that the land was owned by him by virtue of paper title and he also claimed title by reason of adverse possession by him and his predecessors in title. After testimony was introduced in behalf of both parties the court submitted the case to a jury who found that the title was in *414appellees and judgment was entered on…