Steele v. Boley

Anderson, J.:

This is an action at law by the plaintiff for the recovery of twenty acres of land situated in Utah county, • in this Territory, of which he is the patentee. The defendants plead adverse possession of the land for more than seven years prior to the commencement of the action as a defense, and, as an equitable defense and cross-complaint, the defendants aver that in 1876 the plaintiff' purchased of one O. W. Wilson his possessory right to-160 acres of public land, of which the twenty acres in controversy are a part, with the intention of entering the same under the land laws of…