Crider v. Crum

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing.

The two above-styled cases were tried together in the lower court and in this court and will be disposed of by this opinion. These two suits were filed in the fall of 1914, and pursued a leisurely course until the spring of 1924, when they were finally submitted. Judgment was rendered in the spring of 1927, but this appeal was not taken until January, 1929. No explanation appears in the record for the long delay in the preparation and trial of these causes.

In 1865, James Crum deeded to the Honorable John Q-. Carlisle a tract of land in Martin…