Lyons v. Taylor

The appeal is from a judgment for plaintiffs ill a statutory action of ejectment for recovery of a tract of land less than an acre in area, situated on Mon Luis Island near Heron Bay in the lower extremity of Mobile county.

It was admitted that complete title to the whole of Mon Luis Island passed by grant from the king of France into the heirs of Nicholas Baudin in September, 1713, but plaintiffs’ effort to establish a record title by unbroken chain running back to the heirs of said Nicholas Baudin was thwarted by the exclusion of a large number of their muniments of title. The only record…