Johnson v. Smith

Plaintiffs in error sued defendants in error for the title to, and possession of, two hundred acres of land in Harrison County. Plaintiffs in error also sought a decree annulling the claims of defendants in error as a cloud on their title. In the alternative, plaintiffs in error asked for the establishment and enforcement of a vendor’s lien against the land.

Plaintiffs in error plead that all parties claimed the land under their father, Elymas Johnson, deceased; that about November 5, 1900, Elymas Johnson bought the land from its then owner, J. R. Sherrod, and received a deed from Sherrod in…