Anderson v. Anderson

BRIGHTMIRE, Presiding Judge.

The year was 1957. Fall was setting in and plans for a new state highway through McCurtain County, Oklahoma, were taking shape. Raymond Anderson, an employee of the state, asked his son, W. D. Anderson, to join him in buying 160 acres of land lying about 20 miles north of Broken Bow- — land that eventually would become the subject of this quiet title action between a man and his onetime daughter-in-law. The bank loaned them the money and they bought the land May 23, 1957, for about $9 an acre. Not long after that, the state condemned land running through the…