Brooks v. Adams

FARRINGTON, OTIS, Associate Judge.

Appellant, who was plaintiff below, sued for an accounting by appellee, defendant below, who was a mortgagee in possession of an orange grove and adjoining land, owned by the Estate of Floyd Brooks, deceased. Defendant filed a statement of account of his operations while in possession of the property, and counterclaimed for alleged losses from these operations and to foreclose his mortgage. From a final decree favorable to defendant, plaintiff appeals.

*580Floyd Brooks died in August, 1952, the owner of a ten acre orange grove, and twenty acres of adjoining land…