Spencer v. Steele

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sims

Affirming.

The appellants, Ballard Spencer and wife, Minnie, t plaintiffs below, instituted this action against Will Steele to quiet title to a small strip of land described in the petition and said to contain % of an acre. Mrs. Spencer is a daughter of K. F. Clark, deceased, and she and her husband purchased the interests of all other heirs in the land left by her father. The plaintiffs allege that they are the owners and in the actual possession of the land described in the petition upon which they aver the defendant is trespassing and is asserting title by…