Miles v. Rhodes

The suit was begun by statutory ejectment. The defendant, claiming an equitable title, caused a removal of the cause to the equity docket, where it proceeded by bill setting up the alleged equitable title, the original plaintiffs being the respondents and cross-complainants in equity.

In 1900 the lands in suit, a tract of seventy-.six acres, were conveyed by deed of B. P. Brooks to A. L. Bhode's on a recited cash consideration of $220. The grantee and his wife, Lizzie Bhodes, occupied the place as a homestead until the husband’s death in 1908. Thereafter, Lizzie Bhodes, the widow, continued n…