EAKIN v. CITIES SERVICE OIL CO.

No. 5-1515.

311 S.W.2d 530 (1958)

Homer EAKIN, Appellant, v. CITIES SERVICE OIL CO., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

March 31, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Kenton Cochran, Russellville, for appellant.

R. O. Mason, Bartlesville, Okl., J. M. Smallwood, Russellville, for appellee.


WARD, Justice.

The question is: Can a grantee maintain an action to cancel, as a cloud on his title, a forged mineral deed purportedly obtained from his grantor? This question is presented on a demurrer to the grantee's complaint.

Appellant, Homer Eakin, received a deed to 40 acres of land from his father and mother [A. J. and Laura Eakin] February 20, 1933. At that time there was of record a mineral deed purportedly executed by appellant's parents purporting...

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