Watson v. Herring

This is an appeal from a judgment quieting title and reforming a deed to real property located in Geneva County.

The dispute involves a tract of property covering three residential lots. It is undisputed that the Herring family had been in possession of the three lots from the mid-1940's until February 1963, when they sold one of the lots to Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Dixon. In July 1964, the Dixons conveyed the lot to Myrtie Watson, the appellant. The Herrings retained title to the lot on each side of the Watson lot.

The controversy apparently developed as a result of an erroneous determination by…