Kneeland v. Bruce

This cause involves an appeal in error by Floyd L. Bruce and E. H. Godwin from a jury verdict and decree rendered thereon in the Chancery Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, April 9, 1959, for $2,000 compensatory damages and $1,000 exemplary damages. For convenience, the parties will be styled, as in the lower court, complainant and defendants, or called by their respective names.

In her original bill filed March 5,1958, Annie Kneeland alleges that prior to July 5, 1957, she was the owner, unemcumbered, of a one acre tract of land in Shelby County, Tennessee, — one acre in extent on Henrietta…