Jones v. Brown

Lyle Brown, Justice.

This is a suit between adjoining property owners to resolve the title to a strip of ground nineteen and two-tenths feet in width. Appellants, Curtis W. Jones, et al., appeal from a decree of the trial court holding that appellees, G. F. Brown, et al, trustees of the First Baptist Church of Benton, and their predecessors in title, had been in adverse possession of the property since 1952.

Some thirty-five years ago Dr. Dewell Gann, Sr., obtained record title to Lots Four, Five, and Six in Block Fifteen, all of which were deeded in 1946 to Dr. Dewed Gann, Jr. A portion of…