Brewer v. War Fork Land Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The appellants brought this suit against the appellee to recover from it the possession of two adjoining tracts of land, one containing fifty acres, for which a patent was issued to Hughes & Engle in 1861, the other containing one hundred and fifty acres, for which a patent was issued to Hughes & Engle in 1860.

For answer to this suit the appellee set up that it was the owner of all of the land embraced in these two patents except a small strip to which it asserted no title.

On a trial before a jury in the lower court there was a verdict and…