Baker v. Hale

Hale sued Baker in 1872 in ejectment for a tract of land in Greene county, and recovered judgment, from which Baker has appealed.

It is not denied that the legal title to the land is in Hale, but it is insisted for Baker that he has a *47possessory title to the land sufficient to defeat plaintiff’s action.

Hale’s theory of the case, which he sustained by his own evidence, is, that being the owner of the land about 1846 he negotiated with one Turnbill for a sale of the land, and that they agreed on the terms, but that Turnbill declining to carry it into execution, agreed to rent the premises, and…