Tyus v. Duke

L. C. Tyus, as administrator of tbe estate of J. G. Duke, filed a suit against O. M. Duke, to cancel a deed made to the defendant by the plaintiff's intestate in 1903, the contention being that the defendant had breached one of the conditions upon which the deed was executed, as stated in a contemporaneous contract. J. G. Duke, the grantor, was the father of O. M. Duke, and made the deed upon the written promise and agreement of the latter that he would “maintain, board, and provide for the said J. G. Duke, party of the first part, his wife Susan Duke, and daughter Mattie Duke, said care and…