Doyle v. Mellen

David G. Hall, in September, 1869, owned a farm in Warwick, called the Battey farm, containing about one hundred acres. This included a triangular lot of two or three acres at the southwest corner of the farm, which had previously been deeded to the owner of the Wightman farm adjoining, by heirs of Russell Battey, although they held no legal title. The purchaser, however, took possession of the lot and fenced it off, but the whole had come into Hall’s possession in A. D. 1869 as the owner of both farms. He then gave a mortgage of the Battey farm to Sarah T. Battey, describing it as such, and…