W. T. Smith Lumber Co. v. Foshee

HARWOOD, Justice.

On March 22, 1945, Mrs. Ella Lavon Foshee executed a deed conveying to the W. T. Smith Lumber Company, a Corporation, 200 acres of timber land situated in Covington County, Alabama. The purchase price was $5,000.

On April 18, 1961, the complainants filed a bill in equity seeking cancellation of the deed on the ground of the alleged insanity of Mrs. Foshee at the time she executed the deed.

After hearing, the Chancellor took the matter under consideration and thereafter entered a decree finding, among other things, that Mrs. Foshee was insane at the time of the execution of the…