Martin v. Martin

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Arabia Martin died in 1894, leaving eleven children. Among them were Lewis J. Martin and Thomas H. Martin, the parties to this litigation. Thomas H. Martin had spent four years of his life in the West, where he had saved some money, and upon his return to his home in Roanoke county he purchased sixty acres of land adjoining his father’s farm, for which he paid the sum of $1,000. The land wag bought, paid for and’the "deed executed to him before his father died. Arabia Martin, at the time of his death, was the owner of a farm containing about two…