Cooper v. Watson

— This was an action for the recovery, *253in specie,- of sticks of pine timber, in which the appellee as administrator of Robert E.. Jordan, deceased, was the plaintiff, and the appellant was the defendant. The material facts, as shown by the bill of exceptions, are, that the intestate, Jordan, who died in 1870, had, in 1855, purchased the lands, the sixteenth section, known as school. lands, from the school commissioners, giving notes for the purchase-money. The lands were wild and unoccupied, but over them Jordan exercised acts of ownership, and had such possession as' the lands were…