Adkins v. Ratcliff

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge — ■

Affirming.

This equitable action was instituted by appellee .against appellants to cancel a deed which she had exe Guted and delivered to them on March 14, 1923, on the' ground that it had been procured by fraud. Issue was duly joined, and, upon the hearing below, the chancellor adjudged appellee the relief sought. Hence the appeal.

Appellee is the surviving* widow of Augustus Rat-cliff, who died March 3, 1923. At the time of his death he was the sole owner in fee-simple title of two tracts of' farm land in Boyd county, Kentucky, known as lots No.…