Bowen v. Hamilton

I dissent from the conclusions reached by the majority opinion.

The first paragraph of the syllabus would imply that there was no consideration for the conveyance involved. This is not sustained by the record. There is no dispute in the evidence that the son agreed to pay the taxes, pay the insurance, keep up the repairs on the property and permit his mother to live on the premises rent free for as long as she remained single. These things he did for a period of almost three years, at which time the mother remarried, and this lawsuit was commenced. In the event of her remarriage, she was to…