Reese v. Bruce
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pope Chancery Court; Jordan Sellers, Chancellor, 1. All the exhibits to the complaint may be looked to on demurrer and will control the allegations where they are conflicting. 112 Ark. 572; 91 Id. 400; 29 Id. 444; 90 Id. 190; 99 Id. 218; 104 Id. 459. Interveners^are the owners of the land in controversy.
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Appeal from Pope Chancery Court; Jordan Sellers, Chancellor, 1. All the exhibits to the complaint may be looked to on demurrer and will control the allegations where they are conflicting. 112 Ark. 572; 91 Id. 400; 29 Id. 444; 90 Id. 190; 99 Id. 218; 104 Id. 459. Interveners^are the owners of the land in controversy. No one has been in the peaceful adverse and continuous possession long enough to invoke the statute of limitations. 2. Neither the statute of limitations nor laches is available against interveners. The guardian sold his ward’s land and invested in other lands and took deeds in…
1Opinion of the CourtHumphreys, J.
W. W. Tate died intestate on the 29th day of May, 1899, leaving him surviving Amanda Tate, who was his third wife, and twelve children, four by each marriage. On the 23d day of January, 1917, three children by his first marriage, Mrs. Lillie Reese, Henry H. Tate and Mrs. Alma Dorsey, and one grandchild by said marriage, Mrs. Vera‘Chessir, joined with the four children by the second marriage, Mrs. Mattie Bruce, Mrs. Dora Nixon, Mrs. Mary Wilson and James Tate, in a suit for the partition of 209 acres of land near Russellville, in Pope County, against the surviving widow, Mrs. Amanda Tate, and…
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