Templeton v. Stong

In the Chancery Court of Bedford County, Jessie Templeton filed a bill under the Declaratory Judgment Statute^ Co.de secs. 8835-8847, to secure the construction of a certain deed and to have herself declared the owner in fee simple absolute of a certain tract of land described therein. Mrs. Julia Stong, Mrs. Mattie Winford and others, as heirs at law of the grantor, W. W. Gant, were made defendants to the hill. On failure of the defendants to answer or otherwise plead, orders pro confesso were entered against them. No order setting aside these pro confessos appears in the record, hut since no…