Middlebrooks v. Goolsby

Almand, Justice.

The sole exception under review is to an order denying a motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, on the trial of a suit by Rosa Lee Goolsby against Frances Middlebrooks et al., wherein the plaintiff sought to restrain the defendants from prosecuting a dispossessory-warrant proceeding, the cancellation of certain deeds, and reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses of litigation. A verdict in the trial court was rendered for the plaintiff.

The plaintiff in her petition asserted that, in May 1951, she was the owner of and in possession of a certain house and lot in…