Whittington v. McCaskill

The plaintiff in error brought an action of ejectment against the defendant in error for the recovery of the possession of a lot in the City of Pensacola, which resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of the defendant. It developed at the trial, either from the evidence adduced or from the agreed statement of facts that Elizabeth Anderson, who was the daughter of the plaintiff and who had one-eighth or more of negro blood in her veins, departed this life, intestate, without any descendants surviving her, seized and possessed of the lot in question; that, after acquiring the title to such *163l…