Robinette v. Brooks

Hugh M. Bland, Justice.

This is a suit to quiet title to 40 acres of land in Faulkner County, Arkansas. In 1953 appellees leased the 40-acre tract from Mrs. Minnie Meeks, constructed fencing around the land thereby enclosing it within their overall or perimeter fences. In 1956 Mrs. Meeks discovered that she did not own this particular tract but appellees continued in possession, pasturing the lands, built a road to and across it, cut posts off of it and otherwise used the land as their own.

In 1964 appellants obtained a quitclaim deed to the land from the widow of C. E. Gentry who had obtained…