Fitzpatrick v. Shine

SIMPSON, Justice.

The appeal is from a final decree, based upon the bill as amended, the answer of the defendants, and testimony given ore tenus in the presence of the trial court.

Appellants (defendants) assign four errors. The first is that the trial court erred in overruling demurrer to the amended bill.

Briefly, the allegations are as follows: Complainant is a Negro, with very limited education, and now about eighty years of age. In 1900 he acquired the property here involved, consisting of some twenty acres of farm land. He has been in continuous, uninterrupted possession since that time,…