Murphy v. Wall

This cause was tried upon an agreed statement of facts from which we copy the following recitals. Appellee Wall, without having color of title, paid the general taxes assessed against the land here in controversy for 18 consecutive years, beginning in 1926, when he paid the 1925 taxes. During all this time the land was wild, unimproved and uninclosed, and has not at any time been in the actual possession of anyone. However, on two occasions Wall sold timber cut and removed from the land, and from this source received sums of money equal to the taxes which he has paid. Appellant Murphy…