Legal Opinion
Moralis v. Matheson
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided April 22, 1918PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Writ of Error to Circuit Court for Lee County, F. A. Whitney, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtEnnis, J.
The plaintiff in error, McGuel Moralis, brought an action of ejectment in the Circuit Court for Lee County against Julia K, Matheson and her husband B. P. Matheson to recover an undivided one-third interest in a lot of land in the city of Fort Myers. The defendants pleaded not guilty. A jury was waived, the evidence was heal'd by the judge who found for the defendants and entered Judgment against the plaintiff.
The facts in the case appear to be that William Allen in 1879 acquired by patent from the United States Government a tract of land embracing the lot described in the declaration. That…
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