Ratliff v. Meadows

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Ratliff filed his declaration in ejectment against Paris Meadows and others to recover a certain tract of land therein described. The defendants pleaded not guilty, *976issue was joined thereon, and a jury empaneled, who found a verdict for the defendants upon which the court entered judgment, and thereupon the following order was entered:

“This day came the parties by their attorneys, and the defendants expressing a desire to apply to the Supreme Court of Appeals for a writ of error and supersedeas to the judgment of this court, the operation of this…