White v. Lee

The plaintiff in error filed her declaration in ejectment in the circuit court against the defendant in error to recover seventy acres of land situated in Buckingham county.

Upon the calling of the ease for trial at the October, 1924, term of the court, the defendant pleaded not guilty and also relied upon the notice setting up a special defense, under the provisions of section 5471 of the Code, 1919. This notice reads as follows:

“You are hereby notified that in the pending action against me in the above styled proceeding, I shall rely upon a purchase of fiifty-seven acres of land, part of the…