Johnson v. Johnson

This is a controversy as to ownership of a 69-acre tract in Ouachita county, Arkansas. Appellees, Leroy J ohnson and Allie Mae Hall, claim the land under a deed executed to them by the purchaser at a delinquent tax sale in 1936. Appellants assert that they and appellees own same as tenants in common by inheritance from Emaline Johnson, mother of some of the parties to the suit and grandmother of the remainder, and appellants allege that the acquisition of the tax title by said appellees amounted to a redemption and furthermore that the tax sale was invalid.

Emaline J ohnson purchased the land…