Brenner v. Wright

Duckworth, Justice.

Mrs. Winnifred Brenner brought an ejectment suit against J. G. Wright as executor of the will of Miss Annie E. Wright, to which suit the defendant filed two separate pleas, (1) title to the premises involved by prescription based on twenty years adverse possession, and (2) title based on a resulting trust in the defendant’s testatrix, by reason of the payment by her of the purchase-money of the land sued for. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant on each of these pleas. The plaintiff filed a motion for new trial, which was overruled, and she excepted. This…