Gibbs v. Bates

Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.

This appeal presents a controversy that has been intermittently in litigation since 1896; and involves the same parties and the same land as were before ns in Gibbs v. Bates, 150 Ark. 344, 234 S. W. 175.

U. W. Jett was the husband of the present appellee, Mrs. Nora L. Bates. Jet owned a farm of 67 acres; and in 1894 he and the appellee signed and delivered a deed of the farm to appellant, Mrs. Eva E. Gibbs. The grantee never obtained possession of the lands. U. W. Jett died shortly after the execution of the deed, leaving surviving his widow and one son who died in…