Sauls v. Cox

This is an ejectment action which comes to this court by direct appeal from the circuit court of Gallatin county. It involves a freehold interest in forty acres of land located in that county. Defendants’ motions to dismiss plaintiffs’ second amended complaint were sustained. This appeal followed.

The sole question is as to the estate conveyed by a deed which was made in 1872 by Bricem Cox and wife to Nancy M. Cox. The chain of title under which defendants claim is not shown but it is conceded that if the deed is construed as defendants contend, and as the trial court held, plaintiffs’ action…