Johnstone v. Johnson

RODGERS, Justice.

This is a suit filed by Denver T. John-stone in the Chancery Court of Pike County, Mississippi, on January 12, 1967, to establish his claim to an undivided one-ninth interest in 112 acres of land. He named as defendants in his bill of complaint: Earl Johnson, Mrs. Verta Lee Johnson, Enoch J. Williams, Mrs. Mayme Melton Williams, The Mississippi State Highway Commission, J. Willis Hughes, Sun Oil Company, Reading and Bates, Inc., A. E. Andrews, John D. Noble and Marvin E. Douglas.

The petitioner bases his claim upon the following facts. W. F. Johnson, the father of defendant,…