Free v. Owen

Mr. Presiding Judge Harvey

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

In the year 1896, Mrs. M. C. Owen executed a deed to W. W. Bowden for a certain tract of fifty acres of land in Upshur County. The deed was put of record in Upshur County in March, 1901. Mrs. Owen was insane at the time she executed the deed, and she remained in that condition until she died in the year 1917. When he received the deed, Bowden went into actual possession of the land and remained in possession thereof until he died a few years later. His heirs continued to hold such possession until October,…