HUNT, ET AL. v. LEWIS, ET AL.

No. 39062.

219 Miss. 812 (1954)

70 So.2d 13

51 Adv. S. 25

HUNT, et al. v. LEWIS, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 1, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butler, Snow & O'Mara, Jackson, for appellants.

Breed O. Mounger, Tylertown, for appellees.


ETHRIDGE, J.

This is a suit to cancel a deed because of the mental incapacity of the grantor. He was an aged Negro man named Aaron Lewis, who owned approximately 350 acres of land in Walthall County. On March 6, 1942, Aaron Lewis executed a deed conveying one-half of the minerals under this property to the appellants, G.D. Hunt and E.R. Whitaker.

Appellees, complainants below, who are most of the heirs of Lewis,...

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