Comstock v. Henneberry

The complainant derives his claim of title by deed of the premises from Mieer Clark, patentee, to Jehosaphat Eldred, made in 1818 or 1819, and recorded in June, 1820, and a commissioner’s deed to himself of the premises in 1863, on a commissioner’s sale of the same under a decree in a partition suit between the heirs of Eldred. He also claims the land under the seven years limitation law, by payment of taxes under color of title while the land was vacant and unoccupied. The bill claims that Comstock fraudulently, and with notice of appellee’s title, obtained a deed from the heirs of Clark,…