Lewis v. Williams

Patrick H. Williams and a number of heirs-at-law • of Tony Williams, deceased, filed their bill to cancel certain deeds held by Tom Lewis and Edna Washington to certain lands in Walthall County, alleging a constructive trust in their favor by the said holders of the deeds. The real defendants in interest, Tom Lewis and Edna Washington, in their acceptance, set up that the gravamen of the bill was to the effect that the said heirs bottomed their case upon an alleged oral promise to reconvey the lands, denied that said promise was ever made, and interposed as a defense the statute of frauds…