Bourn v. Bourn

SMITH, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Nathan Bourn appeals from a decree of the Chancery Court of Forrest County denying his suit to establish a resulting trust in a forty acre tract of land in that county, and confirming title to the tract in Arlena Bourn.

Suit was begun by Nathan Bourn against Arlena Bourn, his sworn bill claiming title to the land by adverse possession, the land having been part of a tract of land conveyed to B. F. Bourn, husband of Arlena Bourn, during his lifetime, by Federal Land Bank of New Orleans, and of which B. F. Bourn had died seized and possessed.

Arlena Bourn…