Rankin v. Schofield
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Woodruff Circut’Court in Chancery. ' Matthew T. Sanders, Judge. Suit by Octavia Mitchell (who afterwards married Schofield) and others against Sallie Spott Gibson (who afterwards married Rankin) and others.
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Appeal from Woodruff Circut’Court in Chancery. ' Matthew T. Sanders, Judge. Suit by Octavia Mitchell (who afterwards married Schofield) and others against Sallie Spott Gibson (who afterwards married Rankin) and others. A compromise decree was rendered at the February term, 1889, in which, after reciting the appearance of the parties, and the contention of the plaintiffs that they were the sole surviving heirs of J. N. S. Gibson, deceased, who died intestate, and that defendant Sallie Spott Gibson was not a legitimate daughter of the deceased, and also the contention of defendant Sallie Spott…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
The decree from which this appeal was taken was rendered in February, 1889. This appeal was granted by the clerk of this court February 19, 1900. The appellant was born June 34, 1881. She was therefore 18 years, 7 months, and 35 days old when this appeal was granted. The decree from which she appeals had been rendered 11 years before. The act approved March 16, 1899, to regulate the time in which appeals and writs of error may be taken to this court, is as follows:
“Section 1. An appeal or writ of error shall not be granted except within one year next after the rendition of the judgment, order…
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