Warren v. Frederichs

HENRY, Associate Justice.

The appellant filed his petition in the District Court to recover a tract of land containing one hundred and fifty and nine-tenths acres. He claimed by his petition to have title by reason of the adverse possession of himself and those under whom he held under the ten years statute of limitation. He charged that the adverse possession was taken on the 1st day of January, 1854, and was continuously maintained until the 26th day of May, 1884.

The defendant answered by plea of not guilty, and that during the period of the alleged occupancy the land was owned by one Phoebe…