Wells v. Butcher

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

This is a suit by tbe appellants, heirs of Sammie J. Wells, against Roy Butcher and his wife, Frankie Butcher, to quiet title to one acre of land on Daniel’s Creek in J ohnson County. Defendants also prayed that their title to the parcel be quieted. Judgment was for the defendants.

J. W. Wells, who died in 1905, devised his home farm to his six sons, conditioned upon their paying certain debts and equalizing- their two sisters with money. The tract was sold by order of court for a debt and bid in by one of the sons, Alex Wells, who assigned…