Garnett v. Jobe

Stayton, Chief Justice.

J. W. Jobe was the father of W, P. Jobe. He died in 1883, leaving several children. W. P. Jobe died in 1885, leaving two children, who were the plaintiffs in •this case, and seek to recover, as heirs of their mother, an interest in- a tract of sixty-five acres of land conveyed to their father by a deed of date November 6,1882. Their mother died in August, 1881, and the evidence renders it probable that, at the time of her death, the land was held under» an executory ■contract to purchase; for there was one hundred and twenty-five dollars due on the purchase money after…