Rountree v. Jackson

THOMAS, Justice.

The suit is styled a statutory action in the nature of an ejectment for the recovery of real estate in a city and for damages for ‘the detention thereof. The plea of the defendant was that he was not guilty of the matters alleged.

There was an agreement of counsel as to the sufficiency of respective abstracts furnished on demand, Code 1940, Tit. 7, § 940, and that the same was not required to go back of the deeds from Robert T. Bryant, as executor of the last will and testament of James Mullen, deceased, one such deed being the first appearing in the abstract from said executor…