Timmerman v. Stout

This litigation originated in a suit in ejectment against appellant for a small tract of land in Cherokee county embraced in a deed by W. N. Stout to R. T. Wood, deceased, in February, 1918. The property being a part of a homestead of less area and value than the amount of exemptions allowed by law, the widow and minor children of said R. T. Wood instituted the ejectment suit against appellant for recovery thereof. Appellant, insisting that he had previously purchased the property from the same grantor (W. N. Stout) under a verbal trade, paying the purchase price, and being placed in…