Neal v. . Nelson

The court submitted, by consent of the parties, the issues as follows, to-wit: "Is the plaintiff the owner of and entitled to the possession of the land described in the complaint?" Answer: "Yes."

The plaintiff introduced in evidence a grant from the State to one McAnally and evidence of surveyors and others tending to show that it embraced the land in dispute. And a deed from W. H. Gentry, Sheriff, to William Lash, Sr., purporting to bear date 2 November, 1869, attached to which deed was a survey purporting to be dated in December, 1871, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of…