Norris v. Billingsley
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by the court En Banc. Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Leon county. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHocker, J.
Fellows H. Billingsley and John P. Billingsley brought an action of ejectment in the Circuit Court of Leon county, Florida, against Mark Norris for the recovery of the possession of a tract of land. There was a verdict and judgment for the defendants in error here, a reversal of which judgment is sought by writ of error from this court.
On the trial the plaintiffs introduced as a witness Fellows H. Billingsley, who testified that in the year 1899, L. A. Crooker, named as grantor in a certain deed of the land to the plaintiffs which had been introduced in evidence, rented said land to the…
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