Union Bank v. Manard

The plaintiff sued the defendant, in an action of ejectment in the Circuit Court of Linn County, to recover a tract of land in the petition set forth.

The petition was in the usual form. The defendant by his answer, admits that he is in the possession of the land claimed, but charges that he entered by a sufficient legal title. He denies the other allegations of the petition, and sets up the statute of limitations of two years, charging that neither the plaintiff nor its predecessor or grantor, nor any person under whom it claims, was seized or possessed of the land in question at any time…