Huff v. Byers

.Opinión of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

In the year 1876, Wm. Huff and his wife, S. A. Huff, sold two tracts of land belonging to the latter for the sum of $1,050.00. A few months thereafter they purchased the tract of land in controversy for the sum of $550.00.

Wm. Huff conducted the transaction and without the knowledge or consent of his wife had his name inserted as grantee in the deed, though the consideration was paid from the proceeds of his wife’s land. They moved upon the farm immediately and lived there until the death of Wm. Huff on the 8th of June, 1915.

Mrs. Huff thought…