Barnett v. Barnett

GOODWYN, Justice.

Appellants, complainants below, filed a bill in equity seeking cancellation of several conveyances of lands in which their father, C. A. Barnett, deceased, had an interest, and also seeking, in event the relief should be granted, a sale of the lands for division among the father’s heirs. The basic ground for relief is that the execution of the several deeds was the result of undue influence exerted over C. A. Barnett by Dera Barnett, one of the respondents, who, it is alleged, “claims to be the wife or widow” of said C. A. Barnett. The testimony was taken orally before the…