Legal Opinion

Watkins v. Johnson

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided April 2, 1962No. 5-2624PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

George Rose Smith, J.,

on rehearing. In a petition for rehearing the appellees earnestly contend that we erred in holding that the second count in the appellants’ complaint is not subject to demurrer. It is insisted that our present conclusion is contrary to the decision in Ulrich v. Coleman, 218 Ark. 236, 235 S. W. 2d 868, where we held that a cotenant’s purported conveyance of the entire title, followed by the grantee’s entry into open and exclusive possession of the land, amounts to a disseisin that will ripen into title if continued for the statutory period.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ulrich v. ColemanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1951

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Gillison Discount Building Materials, Inc. v. TalbotSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1972

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