Cook v. Hopkins

Plaintiff brought ejectment to recover certain lands in Kent county, which plaintiff acquired through a government title in 1854, and which defendant claims under a holding which can only be sustained under the statute of limitations. Plaintiff claims under a mortgage foreclosure, which appears to us to have been valid, and the other questions are the only ones requiring attention.

*515There is no doubt that defendant and his grantors have held long enough to bar any right of entry, unless prevented from holding adversely by the relations between plaintiff and his own predecessors in title. This…