Miller v. Vizzard Investment Co.

The bill is filed for the purpose of effecting a sale for division of a certain tract of land which belonged to the father of the parties complainant and defendant. Their father died in 1877, and one son, A. I. Vanzandt, who was then living on the place with him, continued in the sole and exclusive possession, use, and enjoyment of the premises until his death in 1909. During all this time, as we think the evidence satisfactorily shows, A. I. Vanzandt, who paid $100 of the purchase money due to his father’s vendor, treated the land in all respects as his own property, claimed to own it in his…