Steele v. Steele

In the period from 1890 to 1900 two negroes, Joseph Steele and Nancy Steele Butler, brother and sister, owning adjoining farms, lived together in Lee County. Their relationship was close and affectionate. Nancy, referred to by the witnesses as Aunt Nancy, on account of her age, owned a forty-acre farm, and her brother’s farm consisted of forty-two .acres. It is this latter which is the subject matter of this litigation.

On November 17,1900, Joseph executed a deed to his farm to Nancy, his sister, for'the recited consideration of $600, yet notwithstanding this deed, the uncontradicted testimony…