Finn v. Alexander

*608The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This was an action of ejectment by G. L. Finn against Nannie Alexander and another. It was conceded that the plaintiff, a resident of California, held the record title to the land, having acquired his deed thereto in 1901 ;■ but the defendant, Nannie Alexander, claims title by adverse possession for more than fifteen years in herself and her grantor, S. L. Filson. The defendant claims that Filson received a deed to the land about 1890, which he neglected to put on record and later lost; that he immediately went into possession of the…