Kester v. Bostwick

On September 9, 1936, W. L. Kester by the tax deed route acquired title to forty-eight lots at Pompano Beach in Broward County. Early in 1937, he took possession of these lots and began to improve by grading, paving, and landscaping and by erecting thirty-two dwellings and twenty-nine garages on them which improvements totalled more than $100,000 and were completed in 1938.

In September, 1940, Nellie L. Cowan Bostwick instituted action in ejectment to recover said properties including mesne profits of approximately $18,000 per annum for about four years they were held by defendant under the…