Court Opinion

ID: 9829380
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:16:05.163121+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:00.612285
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In his motion for rehearing appellee complains of the statement in our opinion that in the deed from the two daughters of S. B. Hurlbut “they recited themselves as the sole heirs of S. B. Hurlbut, deceased.” This deed is not shown in the record. The trial court’s findings of fact on this point were:
“No deed was made to the land by S. B. Hurlbut, but the deed conveying these 200 acres out of his estate is executed only by his said two children, purporting to be his heirs, but not his sole heirs, and by their said husbands.”
We do not deem the erroneous statement, inadvertently made, as material under the circumstances. The fact that these two children conveyed the land 60 years ago, that an affidavit of record more than 30 years recites that they were the only children of S. B. Hurlbut, and that no other heirs or claimants to said land have ever appeared, .creates such a strong presumption, we think, that they were in fact the only heirs of S. B. Hurl-but as to remove any reasonable doubt in the matter, or that would deter a reasonably prudent man from accepting such title. These facts disclosed by the record were, we think, such as to remove any reasonable probability that the title of a purchaser would ever be seriously called in question on that account.
With this correction, appellee’s motion for rehearing is overruled.
Overruled.