Anders v. Roark
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Bradley Chancery Court; Z. T. Wood, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellants brought suit in ejectment for the possession of an undivided interest in certain lands, alleged to be unlawfully held by appellees and for damages for timber taken therefrom.
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Appeal from Bradley Chancery Court; Z. T. Wood, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellants brought suit in ejectment for the possession of an undivided interest in certain lands, alleged to be unlawfully held by appellees and for damages for timber taken therefrom. The complaint alleges that E. R. Anders is a married woman and the wife of her co-plaintiff, to whom she was married in 1867; that she is the daughter of Jesse and Nancy Goodman, all of whose children died in infancy, except appellant and her brother, Jesse Goodman, Jr., and that her father became the owner of the lands under…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts). There''is no dispute, whatever, as to the facts in this case, except relative to the conduct of appellant, Mrs. Anders, during the time of the making of the improvements upon the land in controversy by appellees, and there is no testimony tending to show any conduct upon her part that would have induced appellees or their grantors to purchase said lands, or mislead them to think that she had no claim thereto, except the fact that she lived long in the locality near them without asserting any title thereto or paying taxes thereon. •
Her father died in 1855,…
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