Roberts v. Spencer

The proceedings appealed from in this case were based upon a claim filed by James L. Roberts against the estate of James W. Thornton, deceased, of which Anderson Spencer was the executor.

The complaint stated that prior to the 9th day of June, 1881, one Emma McGee, the divorced wife of the claimant, Roberts, was the owner in fee simple of a particularly described forty-acre tract of land in Madison county in this State; that he, Roberts, was desirous of purchasing said tract of land, but that he and the said Emma not being on friendly terms, she would not sell the same to him; that the said…