St. Louis Refrigerator & Wooden Gutter Co. v. Thornton
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Clark Circuit Court in Chancery. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This is a suit instituted by Jobe Thornton against the St. Louis Refrigerator & Wooden Gutter Company, to cancel the deed of the defendant to certain lands as a cloud upon his title. The defendant answered.
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Appeal from Clark Circuit Court in Chancery. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This is a suit instituted by Jobe Thornton against the St. Louis Refrigerator & Wooden Gutter Company, to cancel the deed of the defendant to certain lands as a cloud upon his title. The defendant answered. The substance of the pleadings is correctly stated in appellant’s abstract as follows: “Appellee filed his complaint against appellant, stating substantially that he was the owner of the northeast quarter of section 11, in township 11, south of range 19 west, under a donation deed from the State, and that he was the owner…
1Opinion of the Court
Battue, J.,
(after stating the facts.) In the hearing the appellant offered, and the court refused to allow him, to prove that the lands were wild and unoccupied, and had been unoccupied for many years before the commencement of this' suit; and that the county taxes of 1868, for which the lands were sold or forfeited to the State, were not levied until the year i86g. —13 The plaintiff relied solely on the donation deeds executed by the State to himself and wife, insisting that they were prima facie evidence of a good and valid title to the lands, and that defendant ought not to be allowed to…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Townsend v. MartinSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1891
- Parr v. MatthewsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1887
- Mathews v. MarksSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1884
- Boehm v. PorterSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1891
- Thornton v. St. Louis Refrigerator & Wooden Gutter Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1901
3Cited by18 opinions
- Rowe v. AllisonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1908
- Carpenter v. SmithSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1905
- McKim v. McLineySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1971
- Pearman v. PearmanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1920
- McKim v. McLineySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1971
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