Childs v. Pruitt

FOURNET, Justice.

This is an action by the children and heirs of Mrs. Emma B. Childs, deceased, to set aside executory proceedings and a deed affecting the property that belonged to the community of acquets and gains formerly existing between their mother and Charley S. Childs, and to have themselves decreed to be the owners of an undivided half interest in the property. The case is before us on an appeal taken by the plaintiffs from a judgment rejecting their demands.

Charley- S. Childs, during his marriage to Mrs. Emma B. Childs, plaintiffs’ mother, gave a promissory ’note, representing a…