WILLIAMS v. GRAYSON

No. 5-431.

273 S.W.2d 844 (1954)

Littleton WILLIAMS et al., Appellants, v. P. C. GRAYSON et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Surrey E. Gilliam and Melvin E. Mayfield, El Dorado, C. M. Martin, Camden, Silas W. Rogers, El Dorado, E. B. Kimpel, Jr., Memphis, Tenn, for appellants.

Keith & Clegg, Magnolia, L. B. Smead and Gaughan, McClellan & Laney, Camden, for appellees.


GRIFFIN SMITH, Chief Justice.

The appeal is from the chancellor's dismissal of an action to have a deed, regular in form, declared a mortgage. Valuable oil deposits were developed about ten years after delivery of the deed, the worth of which far exceeds surface ownership of the' 40-acre fee.

Over a period of approximately twenty years P. C. Grayson had been making small loans to Littleton Williams. In June, 1931, Williams and his wife secured a balance of...

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