Neal v. McMullian

The complainant exhibited her bill in chancery to enjoin the use of certain lands by the defendant in the operation of a turpentine farm. She based her right to injunction upon a claim of fee simple title to a part of the lands and her right of dower in other lands, the fee simple title to which was vested in her husband.

It was alleged that a lease had been made by the husband to one Melvin for turpentine purposes of all of the lands described in the bill of complaint and that he had delivered possession of the lands to Melvin; that Melvin had gone into possession of the lands and afterwards…