Rutherford v. Rutherford

BraNNON, Judge:

John E. Rutherford by two separate deeds, 15th March, 1887, conveyed two tracts of land in Randolph county, one of seventy-five acres, one of ninety-five acres, to his two sons, Samuel W. Rutherford and Wade Hampton Rutherford in consideration, as provided in the deeds, that the sons would support and bury *57John E. Eutherford and his wife. The wife of John E. Euther-ford did not join in the deeds. She died in 1897. (It is said by counsel on both sides that John E. Eutherford was killed by a train of cars near Grafton since the decree in this case). At the date of said deeds…