Ikerd v. Beavers

This suit involved the right to eighty acres of land in Warren county. The complaint was in three paragraphs. The material facts found in the first paragraph are, that, in April, 1882, Henry J. Beavers, being seized of the land in dispute, conveyed it by deed, for a valuable consid■eration, to Mary J. Ikerd. It charges that afterwards Beavers obtained possession of the deed which had been previously delivered to Mrs. Ikerd, and without her consent he destroyed it, and refused to execute another in its stead, but unjustly asserted that he was. the owner of the land. The prayer is that the…