Textor v. Shipley

It appears by the bill that the Mayor and City Council undertook to sell in fee the property in question and made a deed therefore to the defendant, Shipley.

The latter thereupon executed a lease to the defendant, Elizabeth Black, under which lease the said defendant is now in possession. The bill is in the nature of a bill of quia timet and seeks to have the deed from the Mayor and City Council to Shipley and the lease from Shipley to said Black set aside as illegal and void. It is well settled that those only who have a clear legal and equitable title to land, connected with possession, have…