Cole v. Williams

The parties to this litigation, which involves the title to a 160 acre farm in Lonoke county and six lots in England, Arkansas, are all Negroes... Appellants are the only heirs of Scipio A. Jones and Lillie M. Jones, his wife. Jones was a practicing attorney in Little Rock until shortly before his death in 1943. His widow became executrix of his estate and filed her final report June 5, 1945, and was discharged. Lillie Jones died intestate August 6, 1945, and her administrator filed his final report April, 1948, and was discharged.

Appellants began the present suit in ejectment April 24, 1948,…