Mitchell v. . Brown

The complaint alleges the plaintiff to be owner and entitled to the possession of three contiguous tracts of land, each of which is particularly defined and described, containing in the whole one hundred and nineteen acres, and unlawfully withheld by the defendant, and asserts his right to recover the same with compensation for detention and waste committed.

The answer admits the defendant to be in possession of a part only of the land embraced in the plaintiff’s boundaries, and, denying his title thereto, avers the same to belong to his father, Henry Brown, who let him into possession, and…