Joiner v. Joiner

Nichols, Justice.

Mrs. J. E. Joiner, Jr., as next friend for her husband, J. E. Joiner, Jr., filed a suit seeking the cancellation of a deed signed by her husband conveying land to Gary Joiner. It was alleged that J. E. Joiner, Jr. was mentally incompetent at the time the deed was executed and totally incapable of executing it. On the trial of the issue thus made, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff’s amended motion for new trial was overruled and the present appeal filed.

A motion to dismiss the appeal was filed in this court because the notice of appeal states that…