McElvain v. Dorris

The appellees, heirs-at-law of Emily Childers, deceased, brought this suit in ejectment in the circuit court of Franklin c'ounty against the appellants, who had derived title by a chain of conveyances from T. A. Henson, to recover possession of a tract of land 210 feet wide north and south and 274 feet long east and west, in section 19, township 7, range 3, in said county. A jury having been waived,.there was a trial by the court upon evidence offered and a stipulation of facts, and there was a judgment for the appellees, from which this appeal was taken.

In 1899 the inhabitants of West…