Yosti v. Laughran

The plaintiff was an aged woman, the owner of a valuable farm of 148 acres in St. Louis county, and the mother of seven living children, of whom the defendant Margaret Laughran was the youngest. It is shown by the witnesses on both sides that she was an impulsive and somewhat capricious woman; that she possessed strong likes and dislikes, often changing their object, and was easily influenced by those who for the time being possessed her confidence. In March, 1860, being then about sixty-six years of age, she conveyed in fee simple to the defendant Margaret the said farm, being all the real…