Neal v. Teat

The question in this case is whether the defendant in a suit in equity by a landowner to cancel a deed to one- half undivided interest in minerals on grounds of fraud may invoke the ten-year statutes of limitations, Sections 709 and 710, Mississippi Code of 1942, when the landowner’s mineral deed has been of record for more than ten years before the suit was filed.

The original bill in chancery was filed by Oscar Neal and his wife, Hattie Neal, who alleged that they were the owners of 160 acres of land which was their homestead, and that on March 11, 1940, the agents of defendant A. H. Teat…