Buckley v. Noel

Opinion' op the Court by

Yan Sant, Commissioner

Affirming.

Tlie purpose of the suit is to test the title to a tract of land in Scott county which has been sold by appellees, S. M. Noel, Jr., and John Clay Noel, Jr., to appellant, John L. Buckley. Appellant has declined to accept the deed to the property upon the ground that the title is in John Clay Noel, III, an infant approximately 12 years of age.

Appellees claim title by reason of a deed from the infant’s statutory guardian given in compromise of a controversy concerning the validity of the will of John C. Noel, the father of the infant and…