Hill v. Hopkins

The same subject-inatter of this controversy was before this court upon appeal, and was then decided in favor of the appellee. Hill v. Hopkins, 195 Ark. 594, 113 S. W. 2d 482. In this first case Mrs. Hill, the wife of the present appellant, was a party and for that reason the rules of res adjudicata are not strictly applicable. Hill filed this suit alleging that he was the owner of this land although the legal title was held in the name of his wife, Mrs. L. G. C. Hill; that he had bought and paid for the land and took title in his wife’s name, not intending that she should take actual or real…