Harrison v. Lamar

Eakik, J.:

The pleadings in this case, as finally settled, present the case 'of an action at law by Roetna Lamar, one of the heirs of Young S. Lamar, deceased, to recover of John Harrison a tract of land. She rests upon her title by descent.

The defendant pleaded that the estate of said Young S. was of less value than $300 ; that he left a widow, Mary L. Lamar, in whom, by order of the Probate Court, the whole estate was "vested; that she afterwards inter-married with Garrett W. Davis and, with her husband, conveyed to defendant. Under ’the act of 1875, regulating this sort of action, the order…