Sproles v. Gray

Sallie Sproles sought by her Chancery Court bill filed in 1953 a decree adjudging her the sole owner of a described 16% acre tract of land, and to have adjudged void two deeds of Mattie Sproles executed in 1950 and 1951, respectively, purporting to convey these tracts of land to persons made defendants to the bill. Sallie based her claim of ownership on the allegation that she was the sole heir at law of a deceased alleged brother, Oliver Sproles, who- died about 1910. Oliver had been devised by the will of H. D. Sproles, probated in 1897, a described tract of 29% acres of which the 16% acre…