Slack v. Anderson

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Teller.

The plaintiff in error brought suit to quiet title to* a quarter section of land. The defendant, by answer, claimed title from one Mathew Wasley, who was the patentee from the United States government, and who appeared, according to the records, still to be the owner.

It appears from the abstract that the plaintiff, in the spring of 1912, wrote to Mathew Wasley, in Wisconsin, to the effect that a draft for $10.00 had been sent to Hazel Green Bank, to be delivered to him on the execution and delivery of a quit claim deed for the land in question, which the letter…