Travis v. January

The plaintiff sues for the recovery of two tracts of land, which he alleges to be in the possession of the defendant. He avers that he derived his title to the property claimed, by entry and purchase of the United States, made 'at Ouachita, and prays that the defendant be ejected and put out of possession of the land, and com demned to pay him five hundred dollars a year, from the time of his illegal detention thereof, &c. :

The defendant answers by pleading the general issue, and by averring that he is in possession of no land except what he bought *228of Gideon Gibson, by two acts of sale which…