Hall v. Pratt

Opinion of the Court by

Judge O’Rear

Affirming.

Appellants, claiming to be the owners and in actual possession of a tract of land containing 2,500 acres patented to Ezekiel Hall about 1844. brought this suit quia timet against appellees. The latter by separate answers denied appellant’s ownership and possession, and asserted title in themselves in their respective tracts described in their answers. Appellee John Pratt pleaded an estoppel also in that appellant P. W. Hall advised him to purchase the land from another, wrote the deed for the grantor, and as deputy county clerk took and certified…