Pitts v. Hawkins

SIMPSON, Justice.

Myrtle Hawkins et al., the appellees,, brought a bill in equity seeking a rescission of a conveyance made by their father W. E. Pitts, now deceased, to the appellant J. L. Pitts, another child. The grounds for rescission were the unsoundness of the grantor’s mind on the date of the execution of the deed and the exercise of undue influence by grantee J. L. Pitts over the grantor W. E. Pitts. From the final decree of the lower court setting aside the conveyance and, as prayed for in the bill, ordering a sale of the property for a division of proceeds, the respondent J. L. Pitts…