Shell v. Martin

This was a bill brought, by the appellants, against the ap-pellee, in the St. Francis Circuit Court, charging in substance that the ancestor of the complainants, at an early day, long anterior to the year 1838, became the owner in fee of the Northeast quarter of section No. 19, in township No. 5 north, range No. 4 east, situate in St. Francis county and containing as per the public surveys, 150 75-100 acres — that from the time the complainants’ ancestor got title to, and became possessed of, this tract of land, until long posterior to the year 1838, the taxes due on the same were regularly…