Jones v. Hickey

*110The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

These are actions in ejectment, brought, by E. T. Jones to recover two quarter-sections of land in Seward county. The petitions were in statutory-form. The answers admitted the possession of the defendants and denied the other averments. The actions were consolidated and tried as one. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the court sustained a demurrer thereto, and gave judgment against him in favor of defendants. He brings error.

The land was school-land which was sold by the state in 1885 under regular school-land contracts. The plaintiff by…