Anderson v. Doe Ex Dem. MacEdonia, Baptist Church

THOMAS, Justice.

The suit is by the Macedonia Baptist Church for its lot of land in the vicinity of the church. The suit.was a common law action of ejectment. The demise was laid in different counts of the complaint, in the several lessors. In such action at law, if the defendant pleaded not guilty of the matters alleged, this would be the equivalent of the consent rule, which requires the defendant as a condition to controverting the lessor’s title, to admit the truth of the “fictitious averment of lease entry and ouster.” Doe ex dem. Slaughter et al. v. Roe ex dem. W. M. Carney Mill Co., 221…