Johnson v. Morton

BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.

John Johnson, Sr., and Polly Johnson were husband and wife and were parents of seven children, two of whom, at the time of the making of the deeds hereinafter referred to, were dead, to wit, Mrs. Mattie Mack and Mrs. Mollie Morton, both of whom left children surviving them.

On July 20, 1895, John Johnson, Sr., and Polly Johnson employed H. E. Smith to draw up several deeds, one to each of h'is five children then living and also to the children of their deceased daughters. Under this employment deeds were prepared conveying the property described in the petition,—the…