Amiss v. Hiteshew

Hatcher, Judge:

The wife of this defendant died in March, 1924, intestate, and the owner of considerable property including the house in which the two had lived. The defendant continued to occupy the house and as her administrator received the rents from the other property. This suit was brought in February, 1925, by her other heirs for the purpose of ascertaining and partitioning the intestate’s property, assigning the defendant his curtesy, and for an accounting of. the rents he had received. In that accounting the defendant was charged with rent for his occupancy of the mansion house prior…