Wycough v. Ford

This was an action of ejectment by M* A. Wycough against William Ford and Isaac N. Reed, for a tract of eighty acres of land.

The defendant, Reed, filed a motion to dismiss the action, setting forth that the land had been purchased at a sale for the non-payment of taxes, in 1866, by William A. Binns, under whom he, through several conveyances claimed that valuable improvements had been made upon it since and he, and those under whom he claimed, had regularly paid the taxes; and that the plaintiff had not, before the commencement of his action, filed'in the office of the clerk of the court an…