Watkins v. Watkins

The appellee (complainant in the lower court) filed a bill of complaint, seeking to re-establish a lost deed, and for an accounting.

The allegation of the bill is that on July 10th, 1922, the complainant’s father and mother, John Barr Watkins and Carrie B. Watkins, transferred by deed certain lands, in Alachua County, which had been owned by the family for a century, to the complainant’s grandmother, Sue D. Barr, as go-between or trustee, and that she in turn conveyed to the complainant; that no consideration passed between the parties; that both deeds were identical, except as to the names of…