Gardner v. Cook

This was an action of unlawful entry and detainer filed in the county court of Washington county by the appellant, Gardner, a white man, against the appellee, Susan Gray Gant Cook, a negro woman sixty-eight years of age, alleging that she unlawfully withheld from him the possession of a small twenty-acre farm.

The appellee appeared and filed a general issue plea. On the trial of the issue, the county court entered a judgment in favor of the appellant, Gardner, adjudging that he was entitled to the possession of the land in controversy. Appellee appealed to the circuit court, which reversed the…