Irby v. Brooks

Bowles, Justice.

In 1932 M. C. Parrish deeded thirty acres of a fifty-four acre tract he owned to one of his five children, Clarence. Clarence and his family lived with M. C. Parrish and cared for him until the latter’s death in 1935. M. C. Parrish died intestate. Clarence continued to live in the family residence and farm and pay taxes on the entire fifty-four acre tract until his own death in 1970. In 1950 Clarence conveyed the entire fifty-four acre tract to his wife claiming ownership of the remaining twenty acres by virtue of a family settlement in which his four brothers and sisters…