Davis v. Davis

This case presents the unfortunate situation of a mother, brothers and sisters, and nieces, all adults, confederating to coerce the son of the same mother, brother and uncle, respectively, of his other adversaries, to pay again a debt due the deceased father as an alleged balance of the purchase price for the homestead sold by the father to the son. In this deed, the mother joined, since it was a homestead.

Powell Davis is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Davis, the grantors in the aforesaid deed, which he neglected to have recorded before it was lost when his home subsequently burned. At the time…