Minor v. Sutton

On December 16, 1943, the plaintiff in error, L. L. Minor, purchased a tract of land from M. E. Everett, Mrs. L. P. Gray, and Mrs. Gray’s daughter, taking a warranty deed from the sellers. Minor did not enter into actual possession immediately, but sometime in the early spring of 1944 he went upon the property to make repairs on a house thereon; and it appears that at about the same time W. E. Pearson, one of the defendants in error, went upon the land and began breaking it preparatory to cultivating it. Pearson informed Minor that he occupied the land as the tenant of T. G. Sutton, the other…