Hutchins v. Tenant

Hall, Justice.

[Anthony Hutchins brought complaint for land against Charles Tenant. Plaintiff claimed under a sheriff’s sale made by virtue of an execution issued in 1877 by the comptroller general against the land, as wild land, for taxes due on it for 1874 and 1875. Defendant showed that some fourteen acres had been cleared for about thirteen years; that in the spring of 1874 (prior to the 1st of April), one •Sheffield cleared and fenced about six acres of the land and put it into cultivation, and it has been so ever since-

The jury found for the defendant. Plaintiff moved for a new trial, on…