Rock Run Iron Co. v. Heath

1. On the trial of a contest between rival claimants to have title to certain land declared and registered under the provisions of the land-registration act (Acts 1917, p. 108), the examiner appointed thereunder decided that certain deeds relied upon by one of the claimants as color of title on which to base a prescription were forgeries. On the trial before the jury of an exception of fact to such finding, there being evidence tending to show that persons whose names appeared as official witnesses on the purported deeds did not hold commissions as such officers at the time the deeds…