Keeler v. Boteler

BRADY, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of Clarke County, Mississippi, which held that there was no adverse possession by the appellant of the sixty acres involved and confirmed title in the appellees on their cross-bill. From that adverse decree appellant prosecutes this appeal.

This cause had some of the durable characteristics of Tennyson’s “Brook” but it finally ran down after twelve volumes. After a careful reading of the record, especially volumes 5, 6, 10 and 11, it is apparent from the testimony and evidence as it appears in the record that the appellant was using the…