Jim Walter Corporation v. Rush

COLEMAN, Justice.

Plaintiff appeals from judgment for defendant in statutory action in the nature of ejectment to recover one acre of land.

To the complaint in code form, defendant pleaded the general issue. Under that plea, defendant may give in evidence the same matters which may be given in evidence under such plea in an action of ejectment. § 941, Title 7, Code 1940.

The principal question on this appeal is whether certain evidence offered by defendant was admitted without error.

*613Under date of May 11, 1960, defendant and her husband executed to plaintiff a mortgage on the land in suit. The…