Clark v. Wilson

A negro named Charlie Wilson, who died in 1910, owned, at the time of his death, two forty-acre tracts of land in’ Union County. The land was described as follows: The southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 6, and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 6, township 16 south, range 15 west. The witnesses refer to the first tract as the “west forty” and to the other as the “east forty,” and for convenience we will employ the same descriptions.

The west forty was the subject of the litigation in the case of Wilson v. Biles, reported in 171 Ark. 912, 287 S. W. 373,…