Harper v. Holston

— This is an action of ejectment, brought by the appellants Harper against the respondents, Holston and Woodall, to recover possession of a tract of land described as parts of lots two and three, in section twenty-eight, in township eleven, north of range twenty, east of the Willamette Meridian. The *437complaint was in the usual form in such cases. The answer put in issue the allegations of the complaint, and, as an affirmative defense, alleged that the land claimed hy the appellants was without the boundary lines of the lots named, and was unsurveyed, unappropriated, and unpatented land…