Jones v. Minton

This is a suit in chancery to set aside and cancel a deed to an undivided one-half interest in all minerals under a sixty acre tract of land.

The land was the homestead of W. A. Chain and wife, Sebell Chain, when the deed in question was purportedly executed by W. A. Chain and wife, Sebell Chain, to Ed W. Dawson on December 30, 1939, before two subscribing witnesses. The signatures were handwritten, purporting to be the handwritten signatures of W. A. Chain and Sebell Chain. One of the subscribing witnesses made the statutory affidavit and the deed was placed of record on January 23, 1940.…