Hughes, Guardian v. Edwards

Frank Divers, who was a first cousin of Willie Sturdivant and her sole heir at law, brought an ejectment suit through his guardian, C. II. Hughes, for an eighty-acre tract of land in Independence county against J. Clyde Edwards and E. Claude Edwards, who deraigned their title to said eighty-acre tract through mesne conveyances from J. I. Sturdivant who claimed title thereto under the will of his wife Sarah L. (Divers) Sturdivant. Appellants herein were the plaintiffs below and the appellees herein were defendants below.

The cause was submitted to the court upon the complaint of appellants, the…