Weeks v. Bailey

OPINION OF THE COURT

BICKLEY, J.

Appellee, Dudley R. Weeks, brought a suit in ejectment against Blanche B. Bailey and Jose Flores for a certain tract of 19.57 acres of land and for damages for its use. Appellant Blanche Bailey and her codefendant, Jose Flores, answered by denying the plaintiff’s right and title to the land, and said that appellee claimed through a deed executed, but not delivered, but stolen, and set up in a cross-complaint that Blanche Bailey is owner of the tract and Jose Flores was her tenant; that the deed under which appellee claimed was purloined and placed of record; and…