Jacks v. Wooten
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pbillips Chancery Court; A. L. Hutch-ins, Chancellor; STATEMENT OE EACTS. On the 5th day of November, 1917, S. A. Wooten and Cora F. Wooten brought suit in equity against Lula B. Jacks to establish title to an undivided three-eighths interest in a lot in the city of Helena, Ark., claimed by a deed alleged to have been lost and never recorded.
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Appeal from Pbillips Chancery Court; A. L. Hutch-ins, Chancellor; STATEMENT OE EACTS. On the 5th day of November, 1917, S. A. Wooten and Cora F. Wooten brought suit in equity against Lula B. Jacks to establish title to an undivided three-eighths interest in a lot in the city of Helena, Ark., claimed by a deed alleged to have been lost and never recorded. The plaintiffs allege that the deed was executed to Cora F. Wooten by Lula B. Jacks in February, 1895, and that the plaintiffs have been in possession of said lot since that time; that said deed has been lost, and after a diligent search…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the facts). We are of the opinion that the decision of the chancellor is correct. The plaintiffs based their rights to recover oh the alleged fact that Lula 'B. Jacks executed to Cora F. Wooten a deed to her three-eighths interest in the lot in controversy and the deed had been lost before it had been filed for record. The chancellor granted the relief prayed for in the complaint of the plaintiff, and the title was confirmed in S. A. Wooten, who had in the meantime procured a deed to said lot from Cora F. Wooten. The defendant was enjoined from interfering with the title of the…
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