Smith v. McDaniel

The respondents brought this action to set aside a quiet title judgment obtained by appellant, which judgment determined that appellant was the owner of two parcels of real property. The court set aside appellant’s former judgment and determined that it was not binding upon respondents.

There was evidence that in 1915 Mabrey McMahan was the owner of a large tract of land, of which the two parcels here in dispute formed a part. McMahan had an ambitious scheme for development of the area, and in pursuit thereof improved his lands, dredged channels and moved in buildings from the 1915 World’s…