Adams v. Edgerton
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. Hon. D. "W. Carroll, Chancellor. Rector’s deed to Celine E., his wife, is a good contract of sale, if it conveys no title. The description in the deed with her possession, is sufficiently certain to ascertain the property. She was put in possession and held the land openly, notoriously and adversely until her death, and paid the full purchase price of the latid.
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APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. Hon. D. "W. Carroll, Chancellor. Rector’s deed to Celine E., his wife, is a good contract of sale, if it conveys no title. The description in the deed with her possession, is sufficiently certain to ascertain the property. She was put in possession and held the land openly, notoriously and adversely until her death, and paid the full purchase price of the latid. This possession and payment, with only a verbal contract, is a good sale. 44 Ark, 79; 45 ib.', 19; 1$ ib., 246; SO ib., 249; 9 Wall.,1; Story JEq. Jur., sec. 719; 4§ N. Y., 34; 32 Ark., 97; 21. ib.,…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
In the year 1872 Edgerton sold to William H. Rector and Henry Powers a block of ground in Capital Hill extension to the city of Little Rock for $1750; of which sum $550 were paid down, and for the residue the notes of the purchasers were taken. In 1874, shortly before the maturity of the last of these purchase notes, Rector conveyed his other lands to Powers; and Powers on the same day reconveyed to Rector’s wife, Celine. The consideration expressed in the two deeds is respectively $1000. and $1200; but no money was in fact paid, nor any other thing of value delivered or agreed to be paid or…
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