Sykes v. Sykes

Katie Sykes and McFarland and Holmes, the appellees, filed their suit in the chancery court of Monroe county against Pauline Sykes, the appellant, seeking a cancellation of a claim of title asserted by the appellant, and the confirmation of the appellees’ title in and to a certain house and lot in Aberdeen, Mississippi. Katie Sykes asserted title to a one-half interest in said property as the sole and only heir at law of Homer Sykes, she claiming to have been his wife at the time of his death, and it was asserted that she had conveyed a one-half interest therein to McFarland and Holmes.

Pauline…