Bryant v. Freeman

This is a suit in the nature of ejectment, filed in the chancery court by Zeke Bryant, without making his wife a party, to recover a tract of land owned by Isa Bryant, his wife, and to also recover for timber cut from the land and for rents and profits.

The defendants claim to hold under a deed executed by Isa Bryant, on September 22, 1910', for which she paid $800. The husband did not join in the deed. The bill avers the marriage, seisin of the wife, and birth of issue alive, which entitled complainant to an estate as tenant by the curtesy initiate, and it is in this right that the husband…