Board of County Commissioners v. Saxon

This case is now before us on a motion by the defendant to have his appeal, heretofore dismissed, reinstated. The condition of the case, briefly stated, is as follows. The action was in equity, and was brought to quiet the title to a plat of ground, of which the county of Jefferson claimed to be the owner, and on which its court-house stood. Einal judgment on the issue joined was rendered by the district court for said county on the twentieth of November, 1877, and a transcript, for the purpose of an appeal, filed in this court on the sixteenth of May, 1878. ■ This transcript contained what…