Jones v. Jones

JACKSON, Justice.

The decisive issue for decision is whether plaintiffs alleged cause of action is barred by the Statute of Limitations.

In the trial court plaintiff, Ingram Jones, sued his former wife, Mary Francis Jones, and his two daughters, Marcia Ingram Smoke and Sperry Jones, for the cancellation of a deed he had executed conveying to the daughters an undivided one-half interest in 60 acres of real estate. He alleged that the consideration for the deed was his wife’s promise not to contest the divorce action he later filed in Venezuela; that the promise was fraudulently made with an…