Watson v. Smith

By tbe Court,

Boise, J.:

The principal facts in this case are: That in 1863 Yincent Watson, the plaintiff, and his wife, made a deed to William J. Smith, and his wife, Minerva J. Smith, and their children, to two hundred and sixty-one acres of land, situate in Linn county. The nominal consideration of this deed is four hundred dollars.' But the real consideration was that said Minerva was the daughter of the plaintiff, and he and his wife desired that she and her husband should live with and take care of and provide for them in their old age. And the evidence clearly shows that such was the…