Cook v. Mason

This is a suit in equity to set aside plaintiff’s voluntary conveyance of land and to vest title to the land in plaintiff.

Belle Cook, plaintiff, had adopted á daughter, Virginia. She claimed Virginia, aged fifteen years, was disobedient so she whipped" her. Virginia claimed the whipping was a willful and malicious assault. The rumor spread over the town of Collins where Belle lived that Virginia was going to sue Belle for damages because of the assault. It reached Belle’s ears and her brothers’ ears. So Belle and her two brothers, defendant Ben Á. Mason and Bill Mason, now deceased, drove to…