Federal Land Bank v. McCraney

Appellees, the seven children of Travis McCraney and his wife, Mrs. Mamie D. McCraney, filed their bill in the chancery court of Jasper county against the appellants, the Federal Land Blank of New Orleans, Barrett Jones, trustee, and K. F. Huddleston, to establish title to, and recover possession of seven sixteenths undivided interests in one hundred forty acres of land in that county, which they claim by inheritance from their father. Appellant, the Federal Land Bank, answered the bill denying its material allegations, and embodied in its answer a demurrer raising the question of its legal…