Oldham v. York

Complainants filed this bill to recover the possession of a tract of land, comprising sixty-five acres, situated in the fourth civil district of Shelby County, and for rents for the use and occupation, as well as the value, of timber alleged to have been cut therefrom. The defendants, J. R. York At ais., are in possession of the land, claiming as the heirs of W. P. York, who died in May, 1892. The Chancellor decreed in favor of complainants as to the possession of the land, but disallowed an account for rents, upon the ground that defendants’ occupancy of said land was under án honest claim…