Dewey v. Sewanee Fuel & Iron Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Middle Tennessee
At Raw. Ejectment by Maria G. Dewey and others against the Sewanee Fuel & Iron Company to recover possession of certain land in Grundy couuty, in the Middle District of Tennessee, alleged lo be wrongfully withheld by defendant. On defendant’s demurrer to plaintiff’s third replication to the second and third pleas.
1Opinion of the Court
SANFORD, District Judge.
The defendant in its second plea in effect avers seven years adverse possession of the land in dispute under registered assurances of title, and pleads the statute of seven years barring the plaintiffs’ right (sections 2763 and 2764, Code of Tennessee. Shan. §§ 4456, 4457, as amended by Act of 1895, c. 38, § 1); and in its third plea avers that the plaintiffs’ cause of action accrued more than seven years before this suit was brought and pleads the statute of limitation of seven years barring the plaintiffs’ remedy (section 2765 of the Code, Shan. § 4458).
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2Cases cited4 opinions
- Alvis v. OglesbyTennessee Supreme Court · 1889
- Patton v. DixonTennessee Supreme Court · 1900
- Earnest v. Little River Land & Lumber Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1902
- Jackson v. CrutchfieldTennessee Supreme Court · 1903
3Cited by1 opinion
- Wirick v. NanceSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1936