Potter v. Webb

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke —

Reversing.

Appellees, plaintiffs below, the real representatives of Jobn B. Adams, deceased, sued appellant, W. H. Potter, and others in possession, to quiet their title to an undivided one-half interest in certain lands covered by a patent issued to John B. Adams and Benjamin Adams in 1860, and for partition of the land. Potter answered denying plaintiffs’ title and asserting title in himself by adverse possession by himself and predecessors in title for more than forty years. The case was prepared and tried solely upon the issues between the plaintiffs…