Martin v. Conner
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Randolph Chancery Court; George T. Humphries, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellants brought suit to quiet their title to one hundred and eighty acres of land, the northwest quarter, and twenty acres off of the southwest quarter, section 4, township 20 north, range 1 east, in Randolph County. These lands were conveyed to James Martin by a patent in 1837. He died in 1862, intestate.
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Appeal from Randolph Chancery Court; George T. Humphries, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellants brought suit to quiet their title to one hundred and eighty acres of land, the northwest quarter, and twenty acres off of the southwest quarter, section 4, township 20 north, range 1 east, in Randolph County. These lands were conveyed to James Martin by a patent in 1837. He died in 1862, intestate. An administrator of his estate procured an order of sale from the probate court for said lands for the payment of debts on the 18th day of January, 1897, and they were duly sold thereunder, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Kirby, J.,
(after stating the facts). It is insisted, first, that the court erred in declaring the administrator’s sale of the lands void, and that, in any event, appellee is barred from claiming them by the statute of limitations applying to judicial sales. - „
The lands were acquired by James Martin from the Government by patent in 1837, and'he resided with his family upon them at the time of his death in 1862. He left surviving him his widow, Ellen C., who afterwards married Davis West, and some minor children, two of whom, J. F. and James, Jr., were twenty and eighteen years of age…
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