McGrath v. Pothen

Action to determine adverse claims to three tracts of land in St. Paul wherein findings were made directing judgment that defendants are the owners in fee subject to the life estate therein of plaintiff. Plaintiff appeals from the order denying a new trial.

Plaintiff is the mother of the defendants who were decreed the fee owners, and it is undisputed that she was the owner of the properties when she conveyed the same to her brother, Harry Fritz, in October, 1917. The evidence clearly indicates that the purpose of the conveyance was to place the properties out of the reach of the grantor’s…