Gordon v. Reeves

Adam Reeves, one of the appellees, was, on March 23, 1916, the owner in fee simple of the tract of land in controversy, which contains about seventy-eight acres, and is situated in Ouachita County, Arkansas. On that date he was indebted to the estate of George L. Ritchie, deceased, in the sum of $347.60 on open account, and he executed to appellant Gordon, as executor of the estate of Ritchie, a deed conveying said land in fee simple for the consideration of the extinguishment of said debt to the Ritchie estate. On the same day, and contemporaneously with the execution of said deed, Gordon…