Congleton Lumber Co. v. Watkins

Opinion op the Court by

Creal, Commissioner

Affirming.

On October 11, 1934, Mrs. Lottie Watkins, a widow, conveyed to her son, W. G. Watkins, 15 lots in blocks A and B of the Goodrich Avenue subdivision of the city of Lexington for the recited consideration of $1 and other valuable consideration and the further consideration of an assumption and agreement of the grantee to assume a mortgage indebtedness to Hugh French of $1,100 with accrued interest and $498 past due taxes owing by the grantor.

In March, 1935, the Congleton Lumber Company, a corporation, initiated this litigation and in its…