Mitchell v. Mitchell

JOHNSON, Justice.

Appellant E. E. Mitchell, Jr., filed a petition for a declaratory judgment in Conway Chancery Court, seeking to regain possession of certain farm lands being managed by appellee William M. Mitchell and to recover certain payments made to the Federal Land Bank by appellant.

The parties are two of the four sons of E. E. Mitchell who died in 1942 leaving real property in trust for ten years, then to vest in the sons for life with the remainder in the sons’ bodily heirs. (This court upheld the validity of the will in Mitchell v. Mitchell, 208 Ark. 478, 187 S.W.2d 163.) When the…