Wilcoxon v. Osborn

Martin, C.

This was a suit in equity, commenced on the 23rd day of May, 1877, for tbe purpose of enforcing the right of redemption to a parcel of land in Nodaway county, containing eighty acres. The plaintiffs obtained possession a few months before the suit. The defendant, Lewis Osborn, denied the plaintiffs’ title and set up a title in himself, starting from a source common with the plaintiffs’ source of title. He also claimed the absolute title by virtue of an occupation and possession for a sufficient length of time to bar the plaintiffs’ claim of title and vest himself with the fee. The…