Pollins v. Pettus

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This suit was brought in 1969 by the appellees, O. D. Pettus and his wife, to quiet their title to a one-and-a-quarter-acre tract of land in Clark county. The tract is the site of a dwelling house, which was built by Henry O’Neal in 1945. During the 24 years between the construction of the house and the filing of this suit the property was under fence and was continuously occupied by the Pettuses and by their predecessors in title, the property having passed from the O’Neals down to the Pettuses in an unbroken chain of conveyances. Upon that proof the chancellor…