Laney v. Ark. Real Estate Co.

This is a suit by the appellants, the four children of W. H. Laney, to quiet their title to a tract of about seventy acres lying near the south edge of the city of Little Bock. They claim title (a) under two tax deeds which their father obtained from the state in 1941 and 1944 and (b) by adverse possession. The appellees, Arkansas Beal Estate Company, Inc., and Arkansas Warehouse Corporation, rely upon quitclaim deeds by which they acquired the record title to the land in 1956 and 1957. The chancellor found the tax deeds to be invalid, for want of a good description, and held that the…