Hopkins v. Slusher

Opinion op the Court by Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The sole question involved on this appeal is whether or not the appellant and plaintiff below, I. L. Hopkins, was at the time of the filing of this action or since then the owner of a tract of land in Knox county containing 83 acres which was patented to Isaac Mills, Sr., on February 3, 1891. The action was filed in the Knox circuit court by plaintiff against defendant and appellee, C. B. Slusher and another, on March 27, 1918; but judgment therein was not rendered until July 6, 1935, thus entitling the case to be listed as a Rip Van Winkle…