Reaves v. STONE

Stukes, Chief Justice.

This is an action in ejectment. The questions submitted on appeal relate only to the claims of the defendants, who are the appellants, to betterments, and to contest of their liability for rent by way of offset against the value of the betterments, as allowed by the trial court.

W. B. Head died intestate in August, 1935, seized and possessed of a small farm of ten acres in Florence County that had upon it a rough dwelling, built by him and in which he and his family had made their home for fifteen years. His surviving heirs at law were his widow and five- infant children,…