Mimms v. Ewing

In 1854, J. N. Barker, of Montgomery county, gave to his daughter, Delinia, by parol, a tract of *668land. In October of that year, the daughter, with her husband, B. H. Wimberly, moved upon the premises and held and claimed them, under the parol gift, until Wimberly’s death, in 1857, when Mrs. Wim-berly went to her father’s, and Greenfield and wife, the brother-in-law and sister of Mrs. Wimberly, moved to her place.

Mrs. Wimberly intermarried with defendant, Ewing, in 1858, and about the last of that year Greenfield moved off to give possession to Ewing and wife.

During Greenfield’s occupancy, he…