Lee v. Duncan

This is a suit to cancel a 1936 mineral deed on the ground that the grantors’ signatures were forged. It was brought in the chancery court of Walthall County, by R. M. Duncan and his wife Daisy Duncan, and by their two grantees, appellees herein, against the grantee in the mineral deed, Homer P. Lee, Jr., and his successor in title, George H. Coates.

In 1933 R. M. Duncan purchased the 160 acre tract in question. He and his wife lived on a 40 acre tract adjoining on the east. The deed purports to be a conveyance from R. M. Duncan and wife, Daisy Duncan, to Homer P. Lee, Jr., of 15/16ths of the…