Brown v. Webb

DUNN, Judge.

This case involves the appellants Browns’ suit for declaration of rights to quiet title to the coal and mineral estate, other than oil and gas, in a 113 acre tract. They claim title under a master commissioner’s deed to their titular predecessor, New York Life Insurance Company, in a 1932 mortgage foreclosure sale of the property in question, the mortgagor being Frances C. Young, now deceased, appellees heirs’ progenitor. The Hopkins Circuit Court in a bench trial, all the proof being by documentary stipulation, entered judgment favoring appellees declaring them to be the owners…