Jones v. . Rhea

The plaintiff brought suit to be declared the owner of a one-third undivided interest in the land described in the complaint. J. H. Gentry had formerly owned this interest in fee simple. On 1 August, 1917, Ethel Graybeal, then unmarried, and J. H. Gentry and his wife, Effie 0. Gentry, executed a deed of trust to F. S. Kirkpatrick and D. H. Howard, trustees, to secure the payment of $6,000 evidenced by two notes, one in the sum of $5,000 payable to Mary D. Kirkpatrick, and the other in the sum of $1,000 payable to Sallie E. "West. The property conveyed in the deed of trust consists of the land…