Watson v. Camper

Coffey, J. —

This was a suit, brought in the Shelby Circuit Court, by the appellants against the appellee to recover possession of and to quiet title to the land described in the complaint. The cause was, by proper pleadings, put at issue, and tried by the court without the intervention of a jury. At the request of the appellants the court made a special finding of the facts in the cause and stated its conclusions of law thereon. The special findings of facts, so far as they are material to the controversy here, are substantially as follows:

1. Jehu Eigsbee died, intestate, on the 19th day of…