Rudd v. Rudd

This is a suit in ejectment to recover the possession of one hundred acres of land in Scotland County. The parties are wife and husband. Upon a change of venue a trial was had to a jury in Knox County, resulting in a verdict for the defendant. From the judgment rendered thereon the plaintiff has appealed.

The parties were married in February, 1891. After their marriage the wife, under her father’s will, became invested, in 1904, with a life estate, remainder in her bodily heirs, in the one hundred acres of land in controversy. After repeated differences the parties separated in 1904. The wife…