Coker v. Lewis

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing an original bill in equity in which the appellant is the complain*126ant and the appellees are the defendants. The error assigned is the exclusion of certain testimony offered by the appellant. The bill in substance alleges that Mrs. Nettie Coker died intestate in 1903 seized and possessed of a specifically described plantation, leaving as her sole heirs her husband, J. C. Coker, Sr., and the appellant, her son, an infant. The land was incumbered by a deed of trust executed by Mrs. Coker to Nicholson to secure the payment of an indebtedness evidenced by…