Garrett v. Christopher

Acker, Presiding Judge.

D. F. Garrett brought this suit against J. H. Christopher in trespass to try title to 160 acres of land patented to I. G. Mabry, assignee of Tilghman Berry. Both parties deraign title from the patentee.

The plaintiff claims title through a lost deed, alleged to have been executed by the patentee to Wm. A. Hall on February 1, 1856, and mesne conveyances to himself.

The defendant claims title through conveyance from the widow and children of Mabry, the patentee, to Geo. W. Jalonick and 0. Von Carlowitz, executed in 1881, and mesne conveyances to himself.

The trial was…