Ramey v. Ramey

CLAY, Commissioner.

This partition suit developed into a trial of title. The circuit court found appellees were fee-simple owners of a tract of land by virtue of a parol gift coupled with adverse possession.

Diedma Smith originally owned this property and she had five children. In 1930 one of them, Freeland, moved onto the land with his family and they lived with his mother until her death in 1937. Free-land fenced and cultivated the property, and after her death continued to reside there until he died in 1956.

Appellant, another of Diedma’s children, bought up the interests of three of his…