Hopper v. Daniel

JOHN F. STROUD, Jr., Chief Judge.

This appeal involves a quiet-tide action, with an alternative prayer for partition, that was brought by appellants John Henry Hopper and his wife Betty J. Hopper. John Hopper is a grandson of Augustus and Martha Hopper, who acquired tide to a combined total of 120 acres in Yell County, the property in question, in the 1800s. Appellant Hopper’s father, Lawrence, was one of seven children born to Augustus and Martha. In his action, appellant John Hopper contended that his father had adversely possessed the property from the time of Martha’s death in 1947 until…