Eddings v. Black

This suit involves the claim of petitioners Higgins and Eddings to an undivided one-half interest in real estate, the breach of a lease contract by which Higgins was the lessee on the real estate, a request for an accounting and damages, and a partition. Trial was to a jury which found, among other things, that respondent Triangle Distributing Company, Inc. was in peaceable and adverse possession of the land in question under title or color of title for a period of three years. The trial court rendered judgment vesting the title and possession in the real estate to Triangle Distributing…