Mack v. Felt

The special grounds of the motion for new trial are not argued or insisted upon in the brief of the attorneys for the plaintiff in error, and will be treated as abandoned.

The defendant claims as sole legatee of her deceased husband, Thomas Mack, who died in possession of the land. The uncontradicted evidence showed that he had been in actual possession for more than thirty years at the time of his death, paying taxes thereon; but the evidence authorized a finding that his possession originated permissively and by consent of the heirs at law of Fannie Felt, under whom the .plaintiffs claim,…