Scruggs v. Baugh

The bill in this cause was filed to sell fifty acres of land in Williamson county for partition, and to have the title of a certain house and lot in the town of Franklin decreed to complainant. The bill alleged that Silas Baugh, Sr., originally owned both parcels of land, but in the year, 1897, he verbally gave the house and lot in Franklin to his son, Will II. Baugh, who immediately went into possession of same and erected a house and made other improvements, and remained in the open, notorious, continuous, adverse possession and occupancy of the same until Ms death in 1922, at which time he…