Ruffin v. . Overby

The plaintiffs, asserting their ownership of the large territory described and defined in their complaint, seek in this suit to recover possession of the portion alleged to be wrongfully withheld by the defendant. In his answer, the defendant, not controverting the claim of the plaintiffs to other parts, about which he professes not to know, sets up title in himself to three several tracts which may be within the plaintiffs' boundaries, and the lines of which are specified with precision.

Three separate issues as to the plaintiffs’ ownership of the separate tracts were submitted to the jury,…