Rogers v. Manning

Atkinson, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The first special ground of the motion for new trial complains of the admission in evidence of a letter, dated April 12, 1945, from Fred Baywell in Boonville, Indiana, to one of the attorneys for the defendant, which stated the following: “Mr. William Baywell stayed with me a number of years before his death. He has been dead over two years. I remember Mr. Baywell telling me, . . about the land he purchased in 1913 from S. E. Georgia Land Company in Wayne County Georgia. He paid taxes every year, until Mrs. Manning bought the land in…