Wylie v. Tull

David Newbern, Justice.

This is an appeal from a chancery court decree quieting title to forty-nine parcels of land in the appellees. The appellants, William G. and Carolyn S. Wylie, are the successors in interest to the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company and its predecessors to which the lands in question were conveyed when railroad lines were being built in Arkansas. The forty-seven appellees are successors to the grantors. The chancellor held in favor of the appellees on the ground that each deed was a conveyance of a right of way easement rather than fee simple, and that the…