Davidson v. Combs

Opinion by

Judge Hines :

This action was brought by appellee against appellant to' recover for trespass, by cutting timber, to a certain boundary of land claimed by appellee under a patent for twenty-five hundred acres issued in 1846 on a warrant from the Perry County Court. To this appellant answered, admitting his claim to be entirely within the twenty-five hundred acres covered by the patent of appellee, but alleging that he entered under a patent for two hundred acres issued in 1861 on a warrant from the Perry County Court, defining the boundary of his patent, alleging an adverse entry and…