Grantham v. Masonite Corp.

Masonite Corporation filed its original bill on September 10, 1949, in the Chancery Court of the First *748Judicial District of Jones County to cancel the claims of D. L. Grantham and his wife, Mrs. D. L. Grantham, to 280 acres of land as a cloud upon its title. The Granthams answered and claimed title by adverse possession to approximately 165 acres of the land, alleging that they had had that portion under fence since 1936, claiming the same as their own and occupying it exclusively, pleading Sec. 709, Miss. Code of 1942, in bar of the suit of Masonite Corporation. The Granthams made their…