Hinson v. Byrd

LAWSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final decree of the circuit court of Montgomery County, in equity.

Complainants below, suing by their father and next friend, filed their bill to cancel a deed or, in the alternative, to have the deed declared to be a deed of trust. The relief prayed for having been denied, the complainants have appealed to this court.

The bill sets out as grounds for relief that the deed was procured by the exercise of undue influence by one of the grantees therein, Jerry Byrd, over the grantor; that the grantor was incompetent to understand what she was doing; that the…