Wharton v. Littlefield
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cherokee. Tried, before the Hon. Thomas A. Walkeb. This action was brought by Wilson Littlefield against Benjamin B. Wharton, to try titles to a small tract of land embraced in fractional section 18, township 12, range 6, east, in the Coosa land district, and to recover damages for its detention.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cherokee. Tried, before the Hon. Thomas A. Walkeb. This action was brought by Wilson Littlefield against Benjamin B. Wharton, to try titles to a small tract of land embraced in fractional section 18, township 12, range 6, east, in the Coosa land district, and to recover damages for its detention. The plaintiff claimed the field in controversy as a part of subdivision 8 of said section, to which he showed title; while the defendant, who was one of the executors of William Wharton, deceased, as well as one of his heirs and devisees, claimed it under a patent to…
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