Brandon v. State

LAWSON, Justice.

The State of Alabama, by and through the county solicitor of Jackson County, filed a complaint in the circuit court of Jackson County, in equity, against E. E. Brandon and one Dodge automobile, under the provisions of § 247 et seq., Title 29, Code 1940, and prayed for the condemnation and forfeiture of said automobile.

Mrs. Esther Brandon, the appellant here, who is the wife of E. E. Brandon, intervened by petition wherein she claimed ownership of the automobile, and averred that she “had no knowledge of the illegal use of said automobile by the respondent, E. E. Brandon, or by…