Thornton v. Thornton

This case involves a suit brought by Raymond Thornton in the Chancery Court of Dyer County against his brother, Freed Thornton, to determine the rights of said brothers in a tract of land consisting of 22.61 acres of land in Dyer County, Tennessee. The parties will be styled as in the lower Court, complainant and defendant.

T. J. Thornton, the father of complainant and defendant, on May 9, 1931, signed, acknowledged and recorded an instrument conveying the property here involved. This deed, as was held by the Chancellor in the lower Court, conveyed the property to Mrs. Freddie Thornton, wife…