Jones v. Federal Land Bank of Columbia

Jenkins, Justice.

The eight children of an intestate brought an action of ejectment against the Federal Land Bank of Columbia and their mother, to recover a 127-acre tract and a 114-acre tract of land. The petition laid not only a joint demise in the names of all the plaintiffs, but additional ones in the names of the plaintiffs severally. The mother filed no defense. The bank filed a plea of not guilty, and also a plea seeking to set off, against .the plaintiffs’ claim of $500 a year for mesne profits, $79.25 taxes paid for two years, and $519 expended for digging a well and for roofing and…