Merriman v. Yutterman

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

The parties in this appeal are the surviving children of John L. Yutterman who died in 1953 and left his property, located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to his two sons and two daughters. Over thirty years after Yutterman’s death, his daughters, Frances J. Merriman and Melina Mae Goebel, the appellants, filed suit against the only surviving son, the appellee Charles Yutterman and his wife Lorene, to determine the ownership of a forty foot wide driveway that apparently bisects the property. In addition, Frances sought reformation of a deed to property she sold to her…