Aldridge v. Puckett

MADDOX, Justice.

This case involves the rights of the parties in a portion of a one-acre tract of land which was reserved for a family cemetery in a deed executed in 1911.

The deed contained the following reservation :

“. . . [Rjeserving however from the above tracts of land one acre square having for its SW Corner, the SW Corner of the family burying ground, and a driveway from the County Line to said burying ground. Said acre being reserved as a family burying ground for the Puckett families.”

The complainants alleged that Bernard Aldridge (appellant) owned land adjacent to the one-acre tract…