Belding v. Parsons

Plaintiff in error filed a bill in the circuit court of DeKalb county claiming to be the owner of an eighty-acre tract of land therein described, and praying that a certain cloud be removed from the title and that he be decreed to be the owner, in fee simple, of the premises. Certain of the parties defendant answered the bill, and upon a hearing the court decreed that plaintiff in error did not own the land, was not entitled to the relief prayed, and dismissed the bill for want of equity. The case is brought to this court for review by writ of error.

The land in controversy was eighty acres of…