Scott's heirs v. Scott

Samuel Soott having conveyed his land in Hickman county, in this State, to one of his sons, Larkin, the latter made an ostensible sale of it to his brother-in-law, Hugh M Clure, and removed to Memphis in Tennessee, leaving his aged father and mother in helpless destitution. M’Clure soon obtained forcible possession of the land; and thereupon Samuel Scott sued him and Larkin Scott in Chancery for a rescission, on the alledged ground of combination and fraud in procuring the conveyance, and also, because, as charged, the consideration was a verbal undertaking by Larkin, to-' live with his…