Wisdom v. Thomas

Lyle Brown, Justice.

This is an action brought by appellants to quiet title as against the claim of appellees to a right of way for a road to appellees’ property. The road traverses a portion of appellants’ land. The chancellor held that appellees had acquired fifteen feet by agreement and nine feet by prescription. Appellants challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain both findings.

Floyd Dority was the owner of an unplatted forty-acre tract of land near the city of Jonesboro. Eventually he sold all of die west twenty acres to various persons for home-sites. In 1961 Dority sold to…