Dickey v. Kidd

SHORTESS, Judge.

This is a suit to have declared null contracts made between individual heirs and the man they retained to pursue their interests in two successions. Although the trial court did find that the contracts had been rescinded by the heirs, they appealed, unsatisfied with several particulars of the declaratory judgment. For us to discuss the trial court’s decree and the plaintiffs’ assignments of error, we must first explain the familial relationship of the heirs 1 and the tortuous legal background of the parties.

FACTS

William Cotten died in 1955, leaving (among other heirs) his wife…