Bryant v. Strunk

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Reversing.

Roberta S. Bryant claims a large body of land in Whitley County under a patent for 9,600 acres issued October 18, 1855, to Jacob Hudson and Cyrenius Wait. The patent includes a large boundary of land from which prior patents and surveys are excepted. She brought this suit against Murray Strunk and others to recover a portion of the land embraced in her patent which was claimed by them. On a trial between her and Strunk, Strunk was adjudged the owner of the land claimed by him. She appeals.

Strunk’s claim to the land is based upon a patent…