Dumas v. Dumas

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

This is an appeal from decisions of the Columbia Chancery and Probate Courts on three cases consolidated for trial.

Leona Dumas, former wife of Wray Dumas, filed a lawsuit to cancel a deed from Wray to his brother, Austin, alleging fraud; Wray’s daughter, Cecil Ray Dumas Acker, contested the probate of his will as being a product of an insane delusion; and she also filed a suit to set aside the deed from her father to his brother alleging it was a product of an insane delusion.

The lower court tried all three cases at one time. The chancellor held Wray Dumas did sign…