Burchett v. Roop

Opinion op the Court by

Turner, Commissioner—

Affirming.

In September, 1922, appellee filed bis claim in tbe Pike quarterly court against appellant for $25.00 because of appellant’s alleged trespass upon plaintiff’s lands.

Appellant answered denying the trespass, asserting title in a described tract of land embracing, or claimed by him to embrace, the land alleged by plaintiff to have been trespassed upon, and asserting a cause of action for trespass thereon against the plaintiff by way of counterclaim.

This counterclaim having raised the question of title, the cause was transferred to the Pike…