Odom v. Odom

The appellee's husband, Walter Odom, owned eighty acres of land at the time of his death, intestate and without issue, in 1957. Odom was survived by his widow and by four brothers, six sisters, and the five children of a deceased sister. The widow, who received a half interest in the land as her dower, at first attempted to obtain deeds from her husband’s heirs to the other one half interest. Most of the heirs signed such a conveyance, but there is a question whether those deeds were ever delivered to the grantee.

This proceeding was originally a partition suit filed by the appellee against…