OLMSTEAD ET UX. v. Olmstead

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County setting aside a deed executed by Mrs. Tabitha Olmstead to her son Clarence Olmstead and his wife Mrs. Lnra Olmstead.

The bill of complaint was filed on March 1, 1957, and seeks a cancellation of the deed in question solely on the ground that the defendants had promised in the deed and took the same subject to a covenant to support and care for the complainant for the duration of her life, and that the defendants had failed to do so and that such failure constituted a fraud upon the rights of complainant.

The deed in…