Wafford v. Buckner

The lands involved here were before this Court in Walsh v. Buckner, 209 Ark. 320, 190 S. W. 2d 447, decided four years ago. A statement of the facts in the earlier case is essential to an understanding of the present litigation. That case arose from a bill in equity brought by Walsh in Jefferson County Chancery Court to quiet title to eighty acres of wild and unimproved land. The bill was in proper form for a regular in rem proceeding to quiet title, and the notice required by law was duly published. Mrs. Lena Buckner, a named defendant, filed a cross-complaint asking that the title be…