Thigpen v. Payton

LEE, Justice,

for the Court:

James A. Minor and Bobbie H. Minor (Minors), husband and wife, filed suit in the Chancery Court of the Second Judicial District of Jasper County against Annie F. Thigpen (Thigpen) and Willie James Pay-ton, Jimmy Lee Payton and Eugene Payton (Paytons), seeking to remove clouds on title to forty-six (46) acres of land. Thigpen and the Paytons filed separate answers and cross-bills, Thigpen seeking to cancel deeds executed by her to the Minors and Paytons as clouds on her title, and the Paytons seeking to cancel claims of the other parties as clouds on their title. The…