Stark v. Leonard

This is the second appeal in this cause; the opinion on the first appeal being reported in 196 S. W. 709. A full understanding of the case may be better had, perhaps, by referring to the above-styled cause.

One Dick Holmes, the father of Lou Leonard, about 1871, bought what was then known as the Joe Hardy place and gave it to his daughter Lou. At that time the place was supposed to be public land, and Joe Hardy had made a small improvement on it, with the view of purchasing it from the state. After Dick Holmes purchased the place he had the same surveyed by the county surveyor, upon his…