Bonner v. Lockhart

This is an action of ejection for same land and between same parties as reported in 177 Ala. 103, 59 So. 51. It was there held that the attack made on the patent was without merit and that Bonner, the present appellant, could have no title by adverse possession.

It is insisted upon this appeal that the deed from the state to Lockhart was not valid because the appellant was ’in the adverse possession when the same was made, a point which seems not to have been decided in the former case. This is a question, however, we deem unnecessary to decide in order to affirm the judgment of the circuit…