Ford Motor Co. v. Collett

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Under certain De'Groot patents issued in. 1870, the Ford Motor Company holds a «connected chain of title to a boundary of land, comprised of several adjoining tracts, ■■in Leslie County, including the 100 acres, .approximately, here in dispute. Asserting its ownership to the land, the Company brought this action against Reuben Collett and others, seeking damages for trespass and .timber cutting, and an adjudication that it held title to all the land within its boundary. Collett, who was the active defendant, set up claim of ownership to 100 .acres within the boundary…