Seawell v. Young
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Marion Chancery Court; E^bridge G. Mitch-. EEE, Judge; STATEMENT' BY THE COURT. This was a suit brought in the Marion Circuit Court, by L. L. Young, Katherine Sowell, Elvira Stockton, Sarah Morris, Allie Childs, George Seawell, William Seawell and A. C. Seawell, as plaintiffs against E. L. Seawell and John M. Nowlin, as defendants, for the possession of six-sevenths interest in the east half of the east half of the east half of the southeast of the southeast yi…
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Appeal from Marion Chancery Court; E^bridge G. Mitch-. EEE, Judge; STATEMENT' BY THE COURT. This was a suit brought in the Marion Circuit Court, by L. L. Young, Katherine Sowell, Elvira Stockton, Sarah Morris, Allie Childs, George Seawell, William Seawell and A. C. Seawell, as plaintiffs against E. L. Seawell and John M. Nowlin, as defendants, for the possession of six-sevenths interest in the east half of the east half of the east half of the southeast of the southeast yi of section 4, in township 18 north, range 16 west, in Marion County, Arkansas. E. E. Young, Katherine Sowell, Elvira…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts.) First. There was evidence tending to prove that in the spring of 1896 L. L. Seawell and his mother, A. E. Seawell, made a division of the E. y¿ of the E. y?, of the S. E. y of the S. E. % of section four, township 18 north, range 16 west, containing ten acres, which they held in common. The proof tended to show that L. L. Seawell was to take the west half of the ten acres, and A. E. Seawell was to take the east half thereof; that, in pursuance of such agreement, A. E. Seawell executed her deed to L. L. Seawell. The strongest direct evidence of the fact that…
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