Archer
Archer v. Beihl
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Gilbert, J.
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.
This record comes to us in a very unsatisfactory condition. The statement of the evidence in the bill of exceptions is terse in the extreme, and affords but meager information of the facts. There is no definite testimony as to the location of the house or lot, the possession of which was surrendered to the defendant by Mary A. Sakaloff. There is no testimony that that tract which in the deed to the defendant was described as a parcel 25 feet by 100 was ever *332 pointed out to the defendant, or was inclosed or in any way marked on the ground, or that the defendant ever actually or visibly occupied any precise tract of ground by using the same or marking the same or exercising acts of ownership over it. The deed under which the plaintiff claims from Mary A. Sakaloff is the south ISO feet of lot 1. There is no difficulty in determining the location of the premises so conveyed. They include the land in controversy. The quitclaim deed under which the defendant claims was made a year before Mary A. Sakaloff had acquired any title or right of possession of record. It quitclaimed a parcel “25 feet in width fronting…