Byrd v. Byrd

Almand, Justice.

Ezma Boss Byrd brought a petition in DeKalb Superior Court against James W. Jackson and J. B. Byrd seeking to cancel certain deeds to a described tract of land and to enjoin the plowing of a part of said land on the grounds that the deeds were procured through fraud.

The petition alleged the following case. Defendant Jackson, plaintiff’s grandson by marriage, had lived with plaintiff and her husband at one time, and they had come to love and trust him. Plaintiff had been the owner of a described tract of 95 acres of land from November 1, 1926, until April 20, 1965, and on…