HOUSING AUTHORITY OF CITY OF LITTLE ROCK v. PETERS

No. 5-4418.

425 S.W.2d 720 (1968)

244 Ark. 478

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF the CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas et al., Appellants, v. J. H. PETERS and Elizabeth Peters, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

April 1, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spitzberg, Bonner, Mitchell & Hays, and by Steele Hays, Smith, Williams, Friday & Bowen, by Michael G. Thompson, Little Rock, for appellants.

S. Hubert Mayes, Jr., and U. A. Gentry, Little Rock, for appellees.


WARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a chancery decree which held two grantors mentally incapable of executing a deed. Other issues are also raised. The background facts set out below are not in dispute.

Facts. On October 27, 1961, J. H. Peters and his sister executed a deed to J. S. Kirkpatrick and his wife conveying to them a house and lot at 1408 Bishop Street in Little Rock. The purchase price was $4,000, of which $2,000 was paid in cash and the...

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