LEGGETT v. GRAHAM

No. 45201.

218 So.2d 892 (1969)

Mrs. Ethel LEGGETT, Mrs. Jean Hartford, R.C. Atkinson, Jr., Mrs. Mary Davidson, Mrs. Vera Clark and Mrs. Clifford Barnett, Complainants/Appellants, v. Mrs. Iva GRAHAM, Mrs. Estelle Shortsleeve Ivy and Mrs. Helen Stanley, Defendants/Appellees.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 17, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Cain, Canton, Stanford Young, Waynesboro, P.O. Gibson, Jr., Jackson, for appellants.

Riddell & Dabbs, Quitman, for appellees.


PATTERSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of Wayne County wherein complainants sought to set aside certain deeds executed by their father, R.C. Atkinson, Sr. Three of Atkinson's children, grantees in these deeds, were named as defendants. From a decree which dismissed their cause, complainants appeal to this Court.

This cause actually relates to an earlier action which began on January 28, 1963, when R.C. Atkinson, Sr., while living with...

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