Tampa Mortgage & Title Co. v. Smythe

ALLEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the final decree in a quiet title suit. G. P. Smythe sued M. M. Lee and Tampa Mortgage & Title Company to quiet plaintiff’s title to Government Lots 1 and 2, Section 20, Township 32 South, Range 18 East, in Hillsborough County. Defendant Lee was subsequently dismissed from the suit, and plaintiff subsequently abandoned his claim to Government Lot 1. The chancellor took testimony and entered a decree quieting plaintiff’s title to Government Lot 2. Defendant appeals.

Plaintiff’s predecessor in title obtained that title August 11, 1931. In 1938, a lessee was…