Ballentine v. Bradley

KNIGHT, Justice.

The plaintiff — appellant here — brought statutory ejectment against the defendants to recover a certain tract of land, located, lying and being in Lawrence County, Alabama. The action was commenced in the year 1936, and the defendants filed their separate pleas of “not guilty” on July 11, 1936.

Thereafter, Mrs. Tennie Lee Bradley, one of the defendants, and hereafter referred to as’movant, filed a written motion in the case, duly verified, praying that the cause be transferred from the law side of the docket to the equity side thereof, in order, as averred, that she might have…