Hale v. Patterson

STEWART, Justice.

This suit was instituted by Clarence Patterson and Martha, his wife, against Delbert Hale and Sena, his wife, to quiet title to a small tract of land situated in Laurel County, about four miles west of London. The title of both parties relates back to a common grantor, the heirs of Mary J. Combs. The Hales are the immediate grantees of the Combs heirs, having acquired their tract of 24 acres on October 6, 1945. The land out of which the parcel in controversy was carved was conveyed by these same heirs to one D. B. Murphy and Mary, his wife, on April 23, 1946, and, through…