Sparkman v. Triplett

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Tilford

Affirming.

Appellees’ version of the facts out of which this litigation arose is as follows:

On December 10, 1926, the appellant, W. M. (William) Triplett, desiring to sell his farm containing ap proximately five hundred acres, conveyed the same to the appellee, John L. Triplett, for a recited consideration of $12,000 cash, of which only $6,000, and that some months later, was paid. The grantor and grantee were brothers and had been closely associated in business for many years. John is the elder, and, at the time of the conveyance, was sixty-three years of…