Keen v. Osborne

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

Keen and Osborne are owners of adjoining tracts of land. They each claim a part of the "William Hoskins 125-acre patent issued September 9, 1868. This action was commenced by Keen on February 18, 1915, for the recovery of a certain described boundary of land within the Hoskins patent then in the possession of Osborne, and for the sum of $200 in damages.

Osborne filed an answer in which he traversed the allegations of the petition and averred that he was the owner of the tract of land in controversy, describing it by metes and bounds; that his…