Bates v. Adams

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

In May, 1915, this suit was brought by sis of the seven children of John B. Adams, who died many years *101ago, against Robert Bates, the appellant, to quiet their title as the heirs of Adams to six-sevenths of the land described in the petition, it being alleged that Bates, under a deed made in 1890, was the owner of the dower interest of Adams’ widow, and also the owner of the remainder in fee of an undivided one-seventh of the land by purchase of the interest of one of the children of Adams.

In answer to this suit Bates, after denying the ownership…