Perego v. White

GAINES, Associate Justice.

Cherokee County sold and conveyed its school lands to Jones & Douglass, who conveyed them to Eustis & Busilis, who' in turn sold and conveyed them to plaintiffs in the court below. The defendants below being settlers upon the lands, plaintiffs brought an •action of trespass to try title against them in order to recover possession. All the defendant settlers compromised their claims except appellant, who *198disclaimed as to all the land except a tract of 160 acres, and as to that went to trial upon a plea of not guilty and a claim for compensation for improvements in…