Dixon v. . Green

The plaintiff sued for the recovery of a lot in Kinston. He alleged ownership and right of possession, and the defendant's unlawful withholding of the possession from him. The defendant denied plaintiff's allegations, except as to her possession (207) and the plaintiff's demands for the possession, and further denied that she executed to the plaintiff the deed under which he claims the land, and averred that if she did execute it she did not, at the time, have sufficient mental capacity to do so, being then very old, about 78 years of age, and greatly enfeebled in mind and body and very…