Alderman v. Baggett

In April, 1925, Clara Jane Baggett entered into a written contract to purchase from the plaintiff certain lots in the town of Thermal with a hotel and rooming-house located thereon. She took possession immediately and proceeded to operate the hotel and rooming-house. In November, 1925, her husband, William C. Baggett, moved a cottage or “tent house” belonging to him and theretofore located on lots owned by him to the premises being purchased under contract by his wife. This cottage was thirty-six feet long, ten feet wide and divided by plaster-board partitions into four rooms. Its exterior…