Palmer v. Sanders

J. Seaborn Holt, Associate Justice.

This is a suit for conversion of certain timber by a tenant in common. In 1930 A. B. Smith died leaving as his heirs eight children who took as tenants in common certain land (40 acres) of which he was seized. The appellant, Celestia Palmer, was an older daughter of Mr. Smith and after her father’s death she remained upon the premises, paid the taxes, cared for said land for more than twenty-five years, claiming it as her own. In 1959 the appellant sold the standing timber upon 20 acres of the tract for the sum of $3,000.00 and refused to pay her sister and…