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  "id": 1449994,
  "name": "Horn v. Smith",
  "name_abbreviation": "Horn v. Smith",
  "decision_date": "1941-05-05",
  "docket_number": "4-6347",
  "first_page": "409",
  "last_page": "412",
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      "cite": "202 Ark. 409"
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    {
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      "cite": "150 S.W.2d 618"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ark.",
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    "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court"
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "Horn v. Smith."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Grirrin Smith, C. J.\nHenry Horn, who died intestate in 1928, had deeded small tracts of land to each of three sons. Of the parent\u2019s farm there remained 293.89 acres to be inherited by five children unless, as it is contended, Henry Horn, by oral conveyance coupled with possession, set aside 57 acres to A. C. Horn, 57 acres to D. G. Horn, 58 acres to W. A. Horn, and 46 acres to Gertrude [Horn] Smith. The chancellor found that the conduct of Henry Horn did not constitute \u2022 conveyances; that the land was not susceptible of division in kind; and appointed commissioners to partition. A. C. and W. A. Horn and their wives have appealed from the court\u2019s decree rendered in a suit instituted by Gertrude Smith.\nA fourth brother, H. M. Horn, resided in Missouri and independently owned a farm. A.- C., D. G., and \"W. A., contend that in 1922 their father informed them of his desire to assign certain lands to them, the agreement being that they would pay rent during the lives of their parents. It was considered that H. M.\u2019s interest was worth $1,600 \u2014 this on the assumption that the tracts assigned to the three brothers were each worth what the father proposed to give H. M. Henry Horn suffered financial reverses, and, according to the testimony of A. C., D. G., and W. A., directed that they pay the amount it had been determined was equitably due H. M. A. C. and W. A. testified that they settled with H. M. in 1935, each paying him $250. To procure the money they \u201cborrowed on the lands,\u201d first having procured from their mother quitclaim deeds. This is also testified to by II. M., who executed deeds. All of those who say they were put in possession of designated lands claim to have fenced it and to have made other improvements.\nRuth Horn, widow of Henry Horn, died in 1939. Appellee and her children had lived with appellee\u2019s mother for several years, and insists that she helped maintain the home. She testified that her father gave each of the children (H. M. excepted) \u201ca building place for a home.\u201d Appellee was assigned about twelve acres upon which she built. The house was destroyed by fire. No deed was executed. Appellee did not know her father had segregated the larger tracts for her own account and for the benefit of her three brothers.-\nIn 1930 a state highway was projected through property claimed by appellants and lands of the Henry Horn estate. Suit was brought by J. A. Sutterfield and others. The jury awarded $350 \u201cfor H. Horn.\u201d Proceeds were divided among- the heirs.\nIn 1930 a complaint signed by Pate & Cotton, attorneys for plaintiff, and styled \u201cA. C. Horn, plaintiff, v. H. M. Horn, D. Gr. Horn, W. A. Horn, Gertrude Smith, and Mrs. B. A. Horn\u201d was tiled in Searcy circuit court. It was alleged that in respect of the Henry Horn lands plaintiff and the defendants we're tenants in common. The prayer was for partition. The name \u201cA. C. Horn\u201d is signed to affidavit for warning order. The so-called plaintiff, testifying in the instant case, insisted that he had no information that the suit was to be tiled, and that he ordered it withdrawn.\nThe\u201d chancellor did not err in holding that Henry Horn failed to effectively convey the four tracts of land, embracing 218 acres. The property was assessed for taxes in Henry Horn\u2019s name, and it is conceded that rents were paid during Henry\u2019s lifetime, and partially during his widow\u2019s lifetime. Appellee, who according to testimony of her brothers was supposed to have received 46 acres, knew nothing about it, although she was permitted to build a home on twelve acres. D. C. Horn testified he had never settled with H. M.; that he knew when H. M. settled with the two other brothers, and:\u2014 \u201cI told him I would settle if all the other children would sign the deeds.\u201d\nCounsel for appellants complain that the decree \u201ceither ignores or sets aside the deeds of H. M. Horn to these appellants and the deeds that they made to each other. \u2019 \u2019\nThe result is productive of confusion regarding the three brothers; but if the court is correct in the finding that the ancestor had not made the conveyances, it follows that rig\u2019hts created by deeds of tenants in common who dealt with each other as though they were owners of assigned interests are not controversies to be adjusted in appellee\u2019s suit to partition. Her concern goes only to the proposition that there be a segregation of the one-fifth interest to which she is entitled. If the brothers who have dealt with each other in arbitrary disregard of the true status, or through misapprehension, find that they have paid for something they cannot receive or deliver because of the paramount rights of their sister, the equities they contend for cannot prevent partition, but must be adjusted amicably or through proper actions brought for that purpose.\nOther subjects are covered by the decree, but they do not enter into \u2022 the appeal, - and are therefore not enumerated.\nAffirmed.\nTwelve acres to W. A. Horn, eighteen acres to D. G. Horn, and nine acres \u201eto A. C. Horn.\nGertrude Smith is the widowed daughter of Henry Horn.\nAlthough Henry Horn died in 1929, it is conceded that the judgment in favor of \u201cH. Horn\u201d was to compensate damages to his property.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Grirrin Smith, C. J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Merle Shouse, John Shouse and J. L. Shouse, for appellant.",
      "W. F. Reeves and Opie Rogers, for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Horn v. Smith.\n4-6347\n150 S. W. 2d 618\nOpinion delivered May 5, 1941.\nMerle Shouse, John Shouse and J. L. Shouse, for appellant.\nW. F. Reeves and Opie Rogers, for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0409-01",
  "first_page_order": 427,
  "last_page_order": 430
}