Hubbard v. Shepard

This is an action of ejectment. On the trial the plaintiff showed title derived from the United States, and showed in addition that the defendants held possession under a land contract made by plaintiff to-defendant Fannie J. Shepard, who is the wife of her co-defendant, that the defendants are long in arrears on this contract, and that the plaintiff had given them notice to quit. This contract bore date of February 19, 1889, and contained an agreement by Mrs. Shepard to pay all taxes then unpaid or thereafter assessed. Defendants offered to show that one Kimbark had acquired a title to' the…