Puckett v. Heaton

W. W. Heaton brought complaint for land against J. D. Puckett. Upon the trial of the case the jury found *70in favor of the plaintiff, but allowed the defendant to recover $100 for valuable improvements made on the land. The defendant made a motion for new trial, which was overruled, and he excepted.

The defendant in this case did not deny that the legal title to the land was in the plaintiff, but he undertook to show that the plaintiff could not recover, because the defendant had an equitable title; and this claim of equitable title was founded on the fact that he had purchased the land from one…