Watts v. Stanton

This is a bill to set up title in complainant to a tract of about 114 acres of land in Putnam County. The defendants are Dill Stanton, a tenant, whom it was sought to enjoin from cutting and removing timber from the land; and Mae Slagle, widow of Dow (D. E.) Slagle, whose claim to the land was sought to he removed as a cloud on complainant’s title.

A temporary injunction was issued, and a receiver was appointed to take charge of the land pending the suit. On the final hearing the chancellor sustained the hill, adjudged that complainant was the owner and entitled to ■possession of the land, and…