Saulsberry v. Maddix

HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

These appeals involve (1) the applicability of an exception narrowing and limiting the words of a deed from appellant, E. L. Saulsberry, in No. 8752 to appellee’s predecessors in title, and (2) whether a deed from Mary Huntsman Griffith to appellant in No. 8752 was void because of champerty.

The facts are not in dispute and are substantially as follows:

In 1880, John R. Huntsman died intestate and left surviving him, his widow and six children, James, George, William, Franklin, Robert and Margaret Huntsman (Maddix). There was set aside out of his landed estate which was…