Messick v. Midland Railway Co.

The appellant brought suit to quiet her title to a tract of land in Montgomery county, alleging in her complaint that she was the owner of the same in fee simple, and that the appellee claimed an interest therein adverse to her rights, which claim, it was alleged, whs without right and unfounded, and cast a cloud upon her title. Appellee answered by general denial, and by a special answer, alleging, in substance, that in the year 1873 Thomas H. Messick, appellant’s husband, owned the land in controversy, and that the Anderson, Lebanon, and St. Louis Railroad Company, a corporation organized…