Moody v. Stanfield

HARWOOD, Justice.

This suit originated on the law side as a suit in the nature of ejectment. By agreement of counsel the case was transferred to equity to determine the issue of title to the property in question. There the plaintiff on the law side filed a complaint, and the former defendants filed a plea in bar and an answer, and demanded a jury.

The plea in bar in effect set out that the respondent had acquired the subject land by purchase from Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Burgess in 1943, and have been in open and continuous possession since that time.

Issue was joined, and the decree later entered…