Cutrell v. Hoover

This appeal is from a decree based upon a complaint originally filed in the Jefferson circuit court, but transferred to chancery on motion of appellee, who was the defendant below. Appellant - alleged that by purchase from the state he was owner of three lots in Pine Bluff, but that appellee was in unyielding possession.

The cause was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, as follows: Neither appellant nor appellee was an original owner of the lots, which forfeited for nonpayment of taxes for 1932 and were certified to the Land Commissioner February 12, 1936. Several days prior to February…