Bowden v. Turner

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

This suit was commenced in the Circuit Court, at law, of Barbour County, by John Wesley Turner against Charlie Bowden and Lock Bowden as an action of statutory ejectment to recover possession of certain lands described in the complaint. Before the completion of the testimony on the trial of the ejectment suit, the trial court removed the cause from the law to the equity docket, and the bill of complaint here considered was there filed to meet the requirements of the statute as to pleading. The respondents Bell Baker and her husband, Lether Baker, were not parties to the…