Schuman v. Lunnie

The State of Arkansas, by the Attorney General, filed suit in the Pulaski Chancery Court to confirm title to lands which had forfeited due to nonpayment of taxes. Included in the lands involved in the suit to confirm title is lot 5, block 8, Watson’s Addition to the City of Little Rock. Dudley Thomas and his wife Mary, owners of lot 5 at the time of the forfeiture, intervened alleging that the forfeiture and sale to the State were void, and that the deed to the State constituted a cloud on their title. Thomas had bought the property from one Jeter in 1938, and Jeter paid the taxes thereon up…