Wells v. Croft

ALMON, Justice.

This is an ejectment action in which a suggestion of adverse possession was interposed as a counterclaim. The defendant appeals from the granting of plaintiffs directed verdict on the ownership issue and the judgment entered on a jury verdict which awarded the plaintiff money damages.

This controversy concerns the ownership of approximately forty acres of realty in Etowah County, Alabama. Both the plaintiff Harvey Croft and the defendant Archie Wells derive their respective claims to this tract of land from its former record title holder, the late Willie Patterson.

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