Jones v. Shomaker

Mabry, J.:

Defendant in error sued plaintiffs in error in ejectment for the possession of certain described lands situated in Jackson county, and obtained judgment. The trial was before a referee.

Defendants below filed the general issue and a plea on equitable grounds, alleging in substance that the lands sued for belonged in his lifetime to one Cullen Curl who died in February, 1880; that for many years prior to Curl’s death defendant Violet Jones had been a domestic servant in his house and rendered services for him- commencing in 1865 and continuing until his death in 1880, and that Curl…