Albert v. Holt

This is an action of ejectment brought by D. W. Holt and Marvin Holt against Albert to recover nominally *732.91 acres of land, but really sixty-eight square poles, of- the value of less than five dollars: There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, and the defendant assigns error.

The parties claim title under a common source, and the plaintiffs proved a perfect paper title unless one of the deeds in their chain of title is too defective to operate as a conveyance. The defect asserted is that the deed contains no words of conveyance. So much of the deed as needs to be recited is as…