Batson v. Smith

Appellant, N. Batson, complainant in the court below, filed his bill in the chancery court of Pearl River County against the appellees, Leander Smith and his wife Louella Smith, defendants in the court below, to remove cloud from his title to a 40-acre tract of land described in the bill of complaint. The appellees answered the hill, and with their answer filed a crossbill against the appellant asserting that they were the owners of a part of the 40-acre tract by virtue of their adverse possession of same for a period of more than ten years, and as cross-complainants asked that their title to…