Brown v. Long Bell Co.

The suit was filed in equity by the appellants to cancel the claim of title of the Long Bell Company, appellees, to certain lands named in the bill, to-wit, twenty-six acres off the east side of northwest quarter of southwest quarter, and twelve acres in west side of northeast quarter of southwest quarter, section 1, Township 2, Range 15, situated in Clarke county, state of Mississippi.

The appellants claim title as devisees in remainder under the will of J. H. Johnson, deceased, while the appellees essei’t title through purchase at a partition sale decreed in April, 1898, and by adverse…