Eastham v. Roundtree

Stayton, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellant, as the administrator of the estate of Carothers, against J. M. Roundtree and J. W. Bowden, to recover a house and lot in the town of Huntsville.

*111Roundtree and Bowden disclaimed, and Irene Round-tree intervened in the suit by her guardian, and claimed an undivided one-half of the property sued for.

She claimed that the property was bought from L. Roundtree for the sum of $5,000, and that one-hálf of the purchase money was paid by J. M. Roundtree, her father, out of money which she had inherited from her mother’s estate, or that…