78 So. 774 | Miss. | 1918
delivered the opinion of the court.
Mrs. Olga B. Moore filed a suit of ejectment in the circuit court of Leflore county against the appellees to recover a strip of land containing eleven and twenty hundredths acres, described as “beginning at the quarter section corner in the center section 6, township 20, range 2, and run thence east ninety-three feet; thence south three hundred and twenty-one feet, to where there was a wire fence on the 14th day of May, 1914, on the south side of a public road known as the Whaley public road; thence south one degree and forty-five minutes east, five hundred feet; thence south no degree 45 •minutes west, five hundred feet; thence south no degree 45 minutes east, five hundred feet; thence south no degree 45 minutes west, one thousand feet; thence south, one thousand two hundred and. sixty-two feet, to the corner where some woods were on the 14th day of May, 1914; thence continue south one thousand two hundred feet, to quarter section line; thence west ninety-three feet, to quarter section line; corner in section 7, township 20, range 2; thence north five thousand two hundred and eighty feet, on the north and south quarter section line to close, containing eleven and two tenths acres” — and for rent on said land from the 1st day of January, 1912. The suit is predicated upon adverse possession of said strip by the plaintiff for a long period of time, amounting to more than ten years.
It appears that in the year 1876 one P. Money, as trustee under the will of T. Money, had a map made of certain lands known as “Money’s Deadening” embracing parts of sections 6 and 7, township 20, range 2, in which the deadening was surveyed and divided into five lots, containing one hundred, fourteen acres each, and one of these lots became the property of
Reversed, and judgment here.