Hays v. Cole

This is a suit brought by the appellees, Floyd Cole and others, as children and grandchildren of John A. Cole, deceased, to cancel as clouds upon their title to the SW!i of Section 35, Township 9, Range 8 West in Panola Comity, Mississippi, the adverse claim of title asserted by the appellants, Mrs. Helen T. Hays and others, the source of which originated in the foreclosure of a deed of trust given by Willie Cole on February 27, 1904, and under which the land was sold to the Bank of Batesville on February 6, 1905. There was no plea of adverse possession by the defendants, and there was no…