Goodwin v. Markwell

Mabry, C. J.:

The action here is ejectment instituted by plaintiffs in error, in right of the wife, against defendant in error, to recover a described lot of land in Hillsborough county, and the judgment in the Circuit Court was in favor of the defendant.

The plaintiff Lazardi B. Goodwin was produced as a witness, and the bill of exceptions recites that plaintiffs offered to prove by her that she was in possession of the land in question,' claiming it as her own property, before the defendant Markwell went into possession; that he went into possession under a contract of sale from her, and…