Davis v. Hare

Hardison, J.:

Thomas P. Hare filed his complaint in equity against Thomas C. Smith, in which he alleged, in substance, that, on the 29th day of October, 1851, he purchased from Abel Caudle, the then owner, the southwest quarter of section twenty-two,'in township eight north of range three east, and paid him therefor, and received from him a deed, and had from that time held peaceable and* adverse possession thereof.

But that the defendant had procured from some person, from whom he did not know, some kind of a deed or conveyance of the land, which cast a cloud upon his title; and he prayed that…