Tompkins v. Tompkins
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Sharp Chancery Court, Southern District;. II. J. Ra'lclrff, special Chancellor; statement oe pacts. Appellees brought this suit in equity against appellant to cancel and set aside deeds made to him to two tracts of land, and for an accounting of the rents ant profits of the same. Appellant defended on the ground that he had title to the lands in question.
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Appeal from Sharp Chancery Court, Southern District;. II. J. Ra'lclrff, special Chancellor; statement oe pacts. Appellees brought this suit in equity against appellant to cancel and set aside deeds made to him to two tracts of land, and for an accounting of the rents ant profits of the same. Appellant defended on the ground that he had title to the lands in question. The material facts necessary to decide the issues raised by the appeal, briefly stated, are as follows: W. M. Tompkins died in Sharp County, Arkansas, in the year 1900, owning several tracts of lands in said county, including the…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the facts). We will first discuss the rights of the parties to what is called the additional forty acres. It will be noted that W. M. Tompkins had his dwelling house and homestead on an adjoining forty acres of land. He entered the forty acres in question as an additional homestead under the laws of the United States in February, 1900, prior to his death in May of the same year. He dug a well and used the forty-acre tract in controversy as a part of his homestead. After his death his widow made final proof and obtained a patent from the United States to the forty acres in…
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- Sanders v. SandersSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1920
- Wood v. WoodSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1915
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