Powell v. Sumner

Grice, Justice.

Mrs. Margaret Sumner and others, alleging themselves to be heirs at law of Mrs. Florida Ray, filed their petition against Fred Powell, praying for cancellation of an instrument which they alleged purported to be a deed executed by Mrs. Ray to the defendant about two weeks before her death, and which also purported to be a bill of sale to him of live stock and household goods, all of said property, by the terms of the instrument, to go into his possession at her death. Petitioners alleged that Mrs. Ray for a long time before her death was mentally incapable of *342executing a valid…