Bottenfield v. Wood

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Columbia Chancery Court regarding the ownership of about thirty-three acres in Columbia County. Helen Bottenfield, the appellant, claimed that a deed to this property required the appellees to hold the land in trust to be divided equally between all the heirs of Emma Payne Miller, the deceased mother of Helen Bottenfield.

The chancellor found that the trustees held title to the property in trust for the heirs of Emma Miller, to the exclusion of Mary Moses, a daughter. The court considered the value of sixty acres in Louisiana…