Piercy v. Baldwin

Appellant, C. R. Piercy, on May 1, 1942, brought an ejectment suit against appellees, Mrs. Ethel P. Baldwin, Lillian Baldwin, Luther Baldwin and Lois Baldwin, his wife.

July 6, 1942, appellee, Lois Baldwin, on behalf of herself and the other defendants (appellees here), filed “motion to stay proceedings.” In this motion she alleged that she is the wife of appellee, Luther Baldwin, and that he “is in the military services of the United States; that he cannot be present at this term of this court to defend this action; that this is a suit in ejectment against all of the defendants who are now in…