Dean v. DEAN

Moss, Justice.

E. B. Dean died intestate in 1942, seized and possessed of certain real estate in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, which passed to his widow, Mrs. Annie B. Dean, and his four children, Joel L. Dean, Mrs. Annie Belle Arnold, George B. Dean, appellants herein, and James A. Dean, one of the respondents herein.

In February 1943, Mrs. Annie B. Dean and her four children entered into an agreement by which her children assigned to her, for her lifetime, all of their income from the real estate of which E. B. Dean was seized and possessed at the time of his death and which they, along…