Johnson v. Boggess

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke —

Affirming.

The appellants, who were plaintiffs below, claiming to he the owners, and in possession, of two small adjoining tracts of land, about nineteen acres in all, filed this action to recover of appellee, F. Y. Boggess, damages in the sum of $600.00 for alleged trespasses, including the accidental destruction by fire of the dwelling house thereon, it being alleged in the petition, however, that Alma Boggess, the wife of F. Y. Boggess, had a dower interest in the land and she was made a defendant because she declined to join as plaintiff. The…