Walker v. Ellis

This suit involves title to 72 acres in Mississippi county owned in his lifetime by Luther Walker. Walker died intestate in 1933, leaving him surviving his widow, Irene Walker, and his two daughters, appellant Maxine Walker Rhodes and Kitty Jo Walker Harry, as his sole heirs.

On March 22, 1940, said widow, Irene Walker, and her said two daughters executed, acknowledged and delivered to appellee, J. C. Ellis, a warranty deed by which they conveyed, for an expressed consideration of $3,300 paid in cash, said land to appellee, who then went into, and has since remained in, possession thereof.

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