Couch v. Hoover

This is a suit to recover an one-half undivided interest in a tract of land, and to have the trust instrument declared void, canceled, and removed as a cloud on complainants' title; and the questions involved are whether the instrument is a deed or a will, and, if a deed, was it effectually delivered to the grantee 1

IT. C. Couch, of Rutherford county, was, in 1927, the owner of a large farm and of a half interest in a smaller farm. His heirs at law were his two sons, J. Clark Couch and Ellis Couch, and a grandson, J. T. Hoover, Jr., a boy about fourteen years of age.

In the spring of 1927 he…