Baggott v. Otis

S. Otis and W. W. Harrison filed their bill in chancery against F. M. Baggott and J. F. Poore, wherein they alleged that the complainants were “the due and lawful owners in fee simple” of a certain parcel of land, “known as the Joseph Bonifay Grant, being section nineteen (19) in township one (1) south of range twenty-eight (28) west,” which was “wild, unenclosed, timbered land” and chiefly valuable for the timber growing thereon. The bill further alleged that the defendants had entered upon such land, “without authority or right, without consent and over the protest of said complainants,”…