Smith v. Bunn

This is an action of ejectment for eighty acres of land. The plaintiff is sole heir of Isaac Smith, deceased, who it is admitted, died seized of the land, and defendants derive their title from the same source, claiming under a deed executed after the death of Isaac Smith by his second wife, who claimed the land as a homestead. Smith purchased the land in 1858, and lived on it until the death of his first wife, mother of plaintiff, which occurred in 1861 or 1862, as plaintiff’s witnesses testified, or in 1864 or 1865, as Mrs. Noble, the second wife, testified, when he broke up housekeeping,…