Haralson v. Edlen

This suit involves a controversy as to ownership and right of possession of approximately sixty-six acres situated between the levee and White river in Woodruff county, Arkansas.

Appellants in their complaint, asking that their title be quieted and that appellee be dispossessed, asserted ownership by virtue of descent from their mother, devisee of their father, who, they allege, acquired it at a tax sale in 1918, and also by virtue of payment of taxes for twenty-four years.

Appellee in his answer and cross-complaint claimed title solely by adverse possession, which he alleged had existed…