Avey v. Via

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

On the-day of April, 1922, Mrs. Ludie M. Larue executed a deed to Mrs. Lillie May Williams for 500 acres of land on Wolf Island in the Mississippi river. Later R. W. Gray as committee for Mrs. Larue, sued Lillie May Williams and her husband to set that deed aside on the grounds of mental incapacity of the vendor, and that its execution was procured by fraud and undue influence. The defendants employed J. D. Via to defend . the suit, and executed the following written contract:

“This is to certify that I have this day employed J. D. Via to…