Winslow v. Watts

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

This appeal involves an action, commenced in 1963, to establish prescriptive title to 210 acres of Pittsburg County land in defendant in error, hereinafter referred to as “plaintiff”, and to quiet such title against the plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as “defendant”, and others, and to determine the heirs of one Elizabeth Scott, the land’s deceased Indian allottee.

In his answer, the defendant denied that plaintiff had been in adverse possession of the land, and alleged, among other things, that plaintiff’s possession “was merely a tenancy at will predicated”…