MATTHEWS v. PREWITT

No. 4-9736.

248 S.W.2d 353 (1952)

MATTHEWS et al. v. PREWITT et al.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 5, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reinberger & Eilbott, Pine Bluff, for appellants.

Brockman & Brockman and G. Lawrence Blackwell, all of Pine Bluff, for appellees.


GRIFFIN SMITH, Chief Justice.

Key questions are whether Memphis Johnson, a colored man, had a 90-day option to repay $3,500 advanced by Albert and Geraldine E. Matthews, and—if the right subsisted—did B. C. Prewitt and G. T. Neal acquire Johnson's interest in the real property contract around which the controversy centers.

South Bend Plantation in Lincoln county was subdivided and offered at auction January 27, 1950. A 372-acre tract was struck...

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