CHAPIN v. STUCKEY

No. 85-15.

692 S.W.2d 609 (1985)

286 Ark. 359

Esther Hill CHAPIN, Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of Samuel C. Chapin, Deceased, Appellant, v. J.C. STUCKEY, Successor Trustee Under the Will of Samuel C. Chapin, Jane Lee Chapin Riddle, Samuel Caryl Chapin, Judd Valmore Chapin, Jr. and Ernestine Chapin, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

July 1, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oscar Fendler, Michael L. Gibson, Blytheville, for appellant.

E.L. Schieffler, West Helena, Noyl Houston, Trumann, Keith Blackman, Jonesboro, Larry Jennings, Harrisburg, for appellees.


HAYS, Justice.

This appeal concerns the appointment of a receiver to manage Judd Hill Plantation, 4,761 acres of farm land in Poinsett County, Arkansas.

In 1933 Judd Hill gave the plantation bearing his name to his daughter, Esther Hill Chapin and to her husband, Samuel C. Chapin. Thereafter, the Chapins farmed the lands until 1976 when Samuel Chapin died, survived by Esther and three children of a deceased son. The will of Samuel Chapin purported to leave...

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