HUGHES v. YATES

No. 5-1455.

311 S.W.2d 179 (1958)

Marvin L. HUGHES et ux., Appellants, v. M. S. YATES et ux. Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Dissenting Opinion April 1, 1958.

Rehearing Denied April 7, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Steinsiek and Oscar Fendler, Blytheville, for appellants.

Marcus Evrard and James M. Gardner, Blytheville, for appellees.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

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 Blytheville...

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