Byrne v. Gunning

James Cunning filed a bill in equity in the Circuit Court for Alleghany County for the purpose of setting aside a certain deed which he had made to his three sons, James H., Joseph M., and John B. Cunning. The bill alleged that the deed did not conform to the directions given by the grantor for the drafting of it, and that it has an effect which he never intended, and that it was executed by him in its present form wholly by mistake. The defendants were the grantees and the other children of the grantor, and the husband of one of his daughters, and the children of a deceased son, and their…