Meador v. Ward

This is a suit in equity for the cancellation of a deed and incidentally for the partition of the real estate therein described.

On March 25, 1918, James F. Meador and Anna Meador were husband and wife. They had two sons, Adolphus Meador and J. Frank Meador, and five daughters, Minnie Atnip, Ninnie Ward, Callie L. Bell, Pearl Biggerstaff and Luna Chilton. Between them they owned 578 acres of land in Wayne County, he having the legal title to 398 acres and she the title to 180 acres. On the date mentioned they signed and acknowledged a deed purporting to convey the entire tract of 578 acres to…