Cornett v. Combs

STEWART, Justice.

This action involves the question of ownership of a one-fourth interest in a certain 40-acre tract of land lying in Perry County. The entire tract in question was conveyed to Whitt Cornett and his sister, Mary C. Combs, share and share alike, in 1912. During the same year Whitt Cornett conveyed one-half of his interest in the land to French Combs, the husband of his sister, Mary C. Combs, which gave Mary C. Combs and her husband, French Combs, a three-fourths interest in the property and left title to a one-fourth interest therein in Whitt Cornett.

In 1915 Whitt Cornett and…