Curtis v. Patrick

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This appeal arises from a suit to cancel a deed from a widow to her son. On August 5, 1961, appellee Lillie Patrick Summers executed a warranty deed to one of her sons, appellee Herschel M. Patrick. On June 9,1962, appellant Dorothy Patrick Curtis, a daughter, filed suit in Clay Chancery Court seeking to have the deed set aside as a cloud on her title, alleging that the property had been owned by the late N. T. Patrick individually, not by N. T. Patrick and Lillie Patrick (Summers) as tenants by the entirety, that Lillie Patrick Summers was entitled to her dower…