Rogers v. Brooks
Supreme Court of Arkansas
CROSS APPEALS from Phillips Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. W. H. H. Clayton, Circuit Judge. Error to allow Chamberlin to testify as to his impressions of conversations with Rogers, 13th Ark., 46.2, or to admit depositions taken against objections on the fourth of July. Swinnyv. Johnson, 18 Ark., 534, or Brooks’ statements of conversations or transactions with Rogers. Giles v. Wright, 26 Ark., 476; Am. Law.
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CROSS APPEALS from Phillips Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. W. H. H. Clayton, Circuit Judge. Error to allow Chamberlin to testify as to his impressions of conversations with Rogers, 13th Ark., 46.2, or to admit depositions taken against objections on the fourth of July. Swinnyv. Johnson, 18 Ark., 534, or Brooks’ statements of conversations or transactions with Rogers. Giles v. Wright, 26 Ark., 476; Am. Law. Rev. July, 1870, p. 656 (Howland will case). Court will disturb a decree on weight of testimony. Branch v. Mitchell, 24 Ark., 443. No part performance. 8 Ark., 272; 20 ib., 552. No ground…
1Opinion of the Court
English, Ch. J.:
In January, 1872, Wm. H. Rogers, as administrator of the estate of Mary Rogers, deceased, brought ejectment in the Phillips Circuit Court against Samuel H. Brooks for the south half of section fourteen, and the south half of section fifteen (except ten acres off of the north side of the southeast quarter of said section fifteen), township one south, range four east, 630 acres.
Brooks filed an answer and an equitable counter claim, alleging, in substance:
That early in February, 1868, plaintiff (Rogers) purchased of Willis Long the lands described in the complaint, for the…
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