Baer v. Coleman

Ed F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

The only question to be decided is whether the Trial Court should be sustained in its holding that the plaintiff (appellee) had established a lost deed by the required quantum of evidence.

Mr. J. B. Coleman, Sr. was married three times, and died in 1934. Appellee, Joseph B. Coleman, is the youngest child of Coleman, Sr. The appellants are the children or descendants of Coleman, Sr. by prior marriages. The mother of appellee was Emma Powell Coleman, now deceased ; and appellee is her only heir. Coleman, Sr. owned eight lots in McIntosh’s Second Addition to…