HUTSON v. HUTSON

No. 41545.

239 Miss. 413 (1960)

123 So.2d 550

HUTSON v. HUTSON

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 17, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd & Holleman, Gulfport, for appellant.

Robert B. Adam, Gulfport, for appellee.


GILLESPIE, J.

The question is: May a grantor invoke the aid of the chancery court to avoid a deed given when he was voluntarily intoxicated to the extent that he did not understand the nature and consequence of his act?

Appellant filed his bill in chancery to cancel a deed which he charged was procured by appellee without consideration when appellant was so intoxicated that he was wholly incapacitated to know what...

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