McGuire v. Wallis

The land in controversy, a farm of about 186 acres lying in Hot Spring and Saline counties,- was owned by Louis Wallis at his death in 1937. Louis Wallis died intestate, survived by his widow, Martha Wallis, who died in 1955, and by eight grown children. In 1958 four of the children and the heirs of a fifth child brought this suit for partition of the property. The principal defendant, the appellee Clovis Wallis, who is a grandson of Louis Wallis, claims title by adverse possession. Clovis contends that his father, Allie Wallis, held the land adversely from 1937 until his death in 1945,. and…