Lightfoot v. Head

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill filed to quit title to a forty acre subdivision in Hillsborough County. A brief statement of the pleadings may be found in the opinion on a former appeal, 61 Fla. 608, 54 South. Rep. 898.

Until within a year' of the filing of the bill the land was unoccupied, but about nine months before the beginning of this suit, both parties attempted to get possession. Complainant’s title may be said to rest upon a tax deed issued in 1902, while the defendants claim as heirs of a purchaser under a sheriff’s deed, dated May 6, 1878. No attack is made against…