Hobbs v. Clark

Candler, Presiding Justice.

This is an action for land which the plaintiff brought against the defendants in Coffee County. After the evidence closed, the defendants requested and the court gave the following charge: “I charge you further that for a written deed founded on good consideration, as love and affection, such consideration must be based on love and affection toward near relatives of consanguinity or affinity, or one to whom natural duty exists, or be based on some moral obligation arising from some antecedent legal obligation, although then unenforceable, or some present equitable…