Thomas v. Langley

On February 1, 1939, the appellee, Laura Langley, filed this suit in the Izard chancery court against the appellants, Laura Thomas and others, to cancel a deed executed by her former husband, J. W. Langley, and to have her dower assigned. The appellee, the plaintiff in the suit below, was the widow of J. W. Langley who died in 1936, and the appellants are sisters and nieces and nephews of the said J. W. Langley.

J. W. Langley’s mother was Nancy Higginbotham. Langley, himself, at the time it is alleged the deed was made, was unmarried, and his mother and an uncle lived with him. The land…