Edens v. Miller

This was an action to quiet the title to certain real estate, and the questions for our decision arise upon exceptions to conclusions of law stated by the circuit court upon special findings of fact. From said findings it appeared that, in the year 1848, Jesse Tomlinson owned one hundred and sixty acres of land, the east half of which was the.west half of the northwest quarter of section 29, etc. On the west line of said east half he had located a family burying ground, thirty-nine feet and a fraction east and west by seventy-eight feet and a fraction north and south, and'about this ground he…