Cantey v. Smith

This case comes before this Court on writ of error from the Circuit Court of Madison County, Florida, wherein M. A. Smith, as Liquidator of the Citizens Bank of Madison, a defunct banking corporation, filed a suit in ejectment against one F. L. Cantey, plaintiff in error, for the recovery of certain lands described in the declaration.

The defendant below, plaintiff in error here, pleaded “not guilty” and also interposed a special plea on equitable grounds which asserted that he entered upon, was seized of and possessed an undivided half interest in said lands; that he was the head of a family…