Mason v. Gates
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Prairie Chancery Court; John M. BUiott, Chancellor; 1. The original survey and plat, and actual location according to the survey and the intention of the parties, must control. 8 Ballard, Real Prop. 619; 2 Id. 506; 6 Id. 685; 7 Id. 617; 10 Id. 550; 1x0 la. 585; 15 Ark. 297; 9 Enc. of Raw, 57, 59; 32 U. S. 554; Tiedeman, Real Prop. 828; 48 Ark. 498. No errors committed by the party preparing a plat for record, or in recording the same, will change the location of…
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Appeal from Prairie Chancery Court; John M. BUiott, Chancellor; 1. The original survey and plat, and actual location according to the survey and the intention of the parties, must control. 8 Ballard, Real Prop. 619; 2 Id. 506; 6 Id. 685; 7 Id. 617; 10 Id. 550; 1x0 la. 585; 15 Ark. 297; 9 Enc. of Raw, 57, 59; 32 U. S. 554; Tiedeman, Real Prop. 828; 48 Ark. 498. No errors committed by the party preparing a plat for record, or in recording the same, will change the location of lots sold by the first survey or original plat. 115 Mo. 607; 3 Ballard, Real Prop. 575; 2 Id. 505. And the original map…
1Opinion of the CourtBattue, J.
There are two plats of block 43 in the town of De Vails Bluff, in this State. One has been recorded; the other has not. The unrecorded we shall call plat No. 1; the other, plat No. 2.
F. Gates and R. S. Moore brought this suit against John Malcolm and S. R. Mason in the Prairie Chancery Court. Gates alleged that, prior to September, 1891, he acquired a tax title to lots 25 and 26 in block 43 in De Vails Bluff, and at the September, 1891, term of the Prairie Circuit Court on the chancery side, he recovered a decree confirming his title to these lots, and has had actual possession of the same…
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