Hughes v. Yates

This is a boundary line dispute involving a narrow triangular piece of land that separates the Hughes property to the north from the Yates property to the south. The chancellor decreed that the triangle in issue belongs to Yates and his wife, who were the plaintiffs.

In 1948 Ed Rogers, the common grantor of these litigants, owned a tract of land, then planted in cotton, lying on the east side of Highway 61 in or near Blythe-ville. This tract extended for 800 feet along the highway and was 400 feet in depth. Rogers decided to divide the tract into eight residential lots, each having a frontage…