Quarterman v. Perry

Jenkins, Justice.

This was a suit to enjoin alleged timber, turpentine, and other trespasses by the defendant on a described 142-acre tract, which the plaintiff claimed under a tax deed based upon executions against a person who was the executor of the will of a decedent, and who returned the property in his individual name while acting as agent of the heirs and devisees of the estate. The defendant claimed title to that portion of the land on which the trespasses were alleged to have been committed, under a sheriff's deed based on a security deed from one of the heirs and devisees of the…