Wilbourn v. Wilbourn

Appellee filed a suit in the Chancery Court of the First District of Yalobusha County praying cancellation of a deed, whereby he and his wife had conveyed to appellant, their son, the lands involved. The original bill was based on several grounds, but only two of them are of any importance in the record, considered by the chancellor, and necessary for us to review. The issues here are that the deed was never delivered; and that the son, as grantee therein, never accepted it.

The original bill did not waive answer under oath, and the answer was sworn. The learned chancellor rendered a decree…