McCoy v. Thompson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

This is a suit in ejectment brought by Thompson, the appellee, against the appellants, the McCoys.

In the answer and counterclaim of the McCoys they set up title to a small parcel of land described in the petition, describing in their pleading the part they claimed, and this litigation involves only this parcel of. land.

Thompson asserts his title to the land in dispute under his purchase from Mrs. Charles and her children of dower land allotted to Mrs. Charles in the division of her husband’s estate. He contends that the land in-controversy was…