Butts v. Butts

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

John W. Butts and wife brought this suit to quiet title to a farm of 104 acres near Valley Falls, in Jefferson- county. The principal defendant is Halleck D. Butts, a brother of plaintiff John W. Butts.. The farm originally belonged to their father, W. C. Butts, who died in April, 1908. John W. Butts and his wife had occupied a house on the farm from the time *476of their marriage, in 1896, until after his father’s death,, when he set up a claim to own the land by parol gift from his father, accompanied by actual possession and the making of…