Yates v. Wilson

PALMORE, Judge.

In this action, tried before a jury, the appellee, Kathryn Wilson, adopted daughter of Mrs. Betty Yates, succeeded in setting aside a deed by which Mrs. Yates purported to convey her real estate, a 151-acre farm and improvements thereon including a small grocery store building, to her only son, Gascon Yates, “and to his heirs of blood, that is his children or grandchildren at his death.” The defendants, Gascon Yates and his children, appeal.

The deed in question was executed on February 3, 1948, and recorded in the Met-calfe County Court Clerk’s office on February 7,1948. Mrs.…