Sherrin v. Coffman
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from White Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; STATEMENT OF FACTS. Appellees brought this suit against appellants to recover possession of a strip of land containing two or three acres. On the 20th day of November, 1902, Chas. C. Coffman received a deed to forty acres of land. On the 10th day of February, 1909, Chas. C. Coffman and Pearl R. Coffman, his wife, received a deed to an adjoining forty acres of land.
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Appeal from White Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; STATEMENT OF FACTS. Appellees brought this suit against appellants to recover possession of a strip of land containing two or three acres. On the 20th day of November, 1902, Chas. C. Coffman received a deed to forty acres of land. On the 10th day of February, 1909, Chas. C. Coffman and Pearl R. Coffman, his wife, received a deed to an adjoining forty acres of land. They resided on this land with their two minor children until Chas. C. Coffman died. W. H. Goode owned a tract of land south of this and on the 19th day of February, 1903,…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the facts). Counsel for appellants assign as error the action of the court in giving instruction No. 2, which is as follows:
“The jury are instructed that if you find from the testimony in this case that the plaintiff caused the line to be established between her lands and that now claimed by the defendants, and the same was established by the county surveyor of White County, and at the time it was so established both the plaintiff and Latham, the owner of the lands at the time, now claimed by the defendants, agreed to the same and each took possession of their respective lands…
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