Brown v. Cole
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Story District Gov/rt.— HoN.. W. D. EvaNS, Judge. Action to set aside a deed on the ground that it was procured by fraud, duress, and undue influence, and was without consideration, and that the grantor was mentally incompetent to execute a valid deed. Decree for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal.—
1Opinion of the Court
M'cClaiN, J.—
The deed to which, this controversy relates describes a fractional quarter section of land on which the grantor^ Daniel R. Brown, was residing at the time of the execution of the deed, and which had been the homestead of himself and wife — 'his wife being then recently deceased — 'for many years. In 1885 the grantor made his will, in which he devised another quarter section to' Nathaniel A. Cole and wife, parents of the defendants in this action, subject to a life estate to his widow, should she survive him, and subject also to the obligation to taire good care of testator and…
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