Pride v. Gist

Appellants, who owned the legal title to an eighty-acre tract of land in Little River County, sued appellee in ejectment to recover possession of the land. The land had forfeited to the 'State, and on May 7, 1919, appellee obtained a deed from the 'State Land Commissioner. This suit was originally begun May 31,1921, and at the first, trial thereof in the circuit court a verdict was directed in appellee’s favor upon the ground that the suit had not been brought within two years of the date of the commissioner’s deed, as required by § 10119 C. & M. Digest. Upon appeal to this court we held that…