Walker v. Eason

KEITH, Justice.

Plaintiffs below appeal from an unfavorable verdict based upon a jury verdict in a *561partition suit. The parties are ten brothers and sisters, the children of Pearl Eason, who owned a ten-acre tract of land upon which she maintained her home. While Pearl was in a nursing home in extremely poor health, she executed a deed conveying the ten acres to the ten children as tenants in common.

Subsequently, after the death of Pearl Eason, one of the brothers, John K. Eason, qualified as administrator of Pearl’s estate and conveyed a one-acre tract, which included the improvements, out of…