Hicks v. Sprankle

This is an action upon the covenant of seisin in a deed conveying to complainants certain land in Knox county. It is insisted that the deed of Mrs. Allie Taylor to her husband, J. S. Taylor, dated July 8, 1915, is void, and that Taylor could not convey an- estate in fee to Spankle, who conveyed to complainants. The chancellor held that the deed of Mrs. Taylor passed ah estate in fee to J. S. Taylor, and that his deed communicated a good title to Sprankle.

Errors are assigned which present complainants’ insistence that the deed of Mrs. Taylor is' void, because the wife could not, by her deed,…