Arrington v. Masonite Corp.

Appellant filed her bill to set aside certain deeds and other conveyances covering a tract of eighty acres to which she had procured a patent from the United States in 1904. The record title is in appellee, but the bill charged that she had never parted with title and that a purported deed from her to her paramour, one Dave Falconer, in 1905, was a forgery. The appellee filed its answer, and by cross-bill set up the defenses of laches and adverse possession. It acquired record title in December 1937. The chancellor upon extensive testimony dismissed the bill by a decree which did not set out…