Carver v. Fennimore

Complaint by Esther J. Carver against Joseph Fennimore, in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant was indebted to her in a specified sum for the one-t-hird of the profit, use and occupation of a certain lot or tract of land in the town of Alexandria, in Madison county.

Issues were made which were tried by a jury, who returned a verdict for the defendant.

The questions for decision will be understood by the following statement of facts: In 1857 Ira K. Carver, the plaintiff’s husband, was the owner of 80 acres of land adjoining the town of Alexandria, which he conveyed by a deed of…