Lane v. Queen City Milling Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Craighead Circuit Court, Jonesboro District. Felix G. Taylor, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellee brought an action of ejectment against the appellant, and obtained a judgment for the recovery of certain town lots in the town of Jonesboro.
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Appeal from Craighead Circuit Court, Jonesboro District. Felix G. Taylor, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellee brought an action of ejectment against the appellant, and obtained a judgment for the recovery of certain town lots in the town of Jonesboro. In the complaint the appellee claimed to deraign title by mesne conveyances from the government of the United States, and exhibited with his complaint several conveyances through which he claimed, but exhibited none from the United States. He also claimed under the seven years" statute of limitation. The appellant denied the material…
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, J.,
(after stating the facts.) The court is of the opinion that the descriptions in the plaintiff’s deeds were sufficient to identify and locate the lots to be conveyed, and ought to have gone to the jury, in connection with the parol evidence. We think that these descriptions, though awkward, taken with parol evidence, sufficiently locate the lots south of the original survey of the town of Jonesboro, south of Jefferson street and east of Main street, as extended, in said town. But the plaintiff fails in his evidence to show that he deraigns title from the government. He also fails to…
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