Douglass Hospital & Training School for Nurses v. White

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

This is an action in ejectment. Judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant for the possession of the property and for $247.66 rent during the time that the plaintiff deprived the defendant of possession. The plaintiff appeals.

The plaintiff, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Kansas, holds as devisee under the will of Abraham Grant, who owned the property and who died in possession of it. His will was probated in Wyandotte county on January 27, 1911. The defendant holds under a sheriff’s deed issued on a sale of the…