Leslie v. Hammond

This appeal is the result of an action by Ray O. Davis, as next friend of Byron W. Payton, Jr., and Thelma Hammond, minors, against S. B. Leslie to recover an undivided four-ninths interest in 160 acres of land, more or less, and to quiet title to the same; and a suit by S. B. Leslie against Ray C. Davis, Mattie Payton Davis, and the latter’s two children by a former marriage, Bryon W. Payton, Jr., and Thelma Hammond, in ejectment and to quiet title to all of said land. The two cases were consolidated.

The facts are that Byron W. Payton died intestate in August, 1914, at which time he was the…