Cavett v. Pettigrew

Appellee, Mrs. Mollie Pettigrew, who was the plaintiff below, brought this suit against appellant, J. M. Cavett, who is her father, on December 21, 1928, and, for her cause of action, alleged the following facts: That her father executed and delivered to her a deed on November 27, 1916, for the recited consideration of love and affection and $1 cash in hand paid. She accepted the deed and kept it at her home in a satchel in a trunk, where it remained until about 1925, when she discovered that the deed had been abstracted from the trunk.

It was further alleged that in 1922 her father had…