Hawkins v. Gray
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Conway Chancery Court; Jordan Sellers, Chancellor; 1. Mr. Gray’s mental capacity to execute the deed was completely established by uncontradicted testimony. 95 Ark. 159; 87 Id. 273; II. 148; 49 Id. 367; 78 Id. 420; 85 Id. 363; 119 Id. 468; 2 Pom. Eq. Jur.
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Appeal from Conway Chancery Court; Jordan Sellers, Chancellor; 1. Mr. Gray’s mental capacity to execute the deed was completely established by uncontradicted testimony. 95 Ark. 159; 87 Id. 273; II. 148; 49 Id. 367; 78 Id. 420; 85 Id. 363; 119 Id. 468; 2 Pom. Eq. Jur. (3 ed.), § 947, etc. 2. There was no undue influence nor coercion. 78 Ark. 420; 49 Id. 367. 3. No independent advice was needed or necessary. 49 Ark. 367; 78 Id. 425; 86 Id. 363; 95 Id. 523; 119 Id. 466; 129 H. S. 663; 173 Id. 17; 16 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1087. There was ample consideration proven and the deed should be sustained. 1.…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
Both appellant, Minnie Hawkins, and appellees, Annie Gray, John Gray, Fannie Humphries and Nellie Watson, are children of .Jesse Gray, deceased. This bill was filed in the chancery court by ■ appellees against appellant to set aside a conveyance of a house and lot to her by her father.
Jesse Gray died on January 20,1916, and was eighty-three years old at the time of his death. He was a man of limited education, but of considerable force of character. At one time he had owned a valuable river bottom farm, which had fallen into the Arkansas River by reason of that river having changed its…
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