Wadkins v. Watson

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

Mrs. Lillias Wadkins, joined by her husband, executed, with all the formalities necessary to the conveyance of her separate estate, a deed, the material parts of which were as follows:

“ Know all men by these presents, that we, Andrew Jackson Wadkins and Lillias Wadkins, wife of said Andrew Jackson Wadkins, and also heir at law and daughter of William Stoneham, deceased, and his wife, Eliza Stoneham, for and in consideration of $250 paid us by Amos Morrill, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, and released, and by these presents do…