Hooper v. Caruthers

STAYTOH, Chief Justice.

—Appellant, through a regular chain of transfer, shows title to the land in controversy in his father, who died in 1854. The conveyance to his father was made in 1851 by a deed which purported to be on valuable consideration, and without any recognition of the fact that it was paid for with the separate means of appellant’s mother, who survived his father, but on the trial this latter fact was shown.

Some objection was made to the deed conveying the land from the original grantee to the person who conveyed to appellant’s father for want of description, but it was…