Kersh v. Lyons

The principal questions presented for decision here are: (1) Whether or not Mrs. Carrie B. Edwards, deceased, and her predecessor in title, C. C. Sibley, who was her father and from whom she inherited, and both of whom were respectively and successively the undisputed owner of the record title to 295 acres of laud which include the SE¼ of Section 30, Township 10 North, Range 2 West in Yazoo County, Mississippi, had also acquired prior to October 27, 1928, title by adverse possession, and without color of title, a strip of land on which oil is now being produced and which is estimated to be…