Turner v. Begley

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Willis

Reversing.

In its origin this was a partition proceeding, but it was early transformed into a controversy over the title to the tract of land sought to be divided. On October 16, 1873, Parris Begley and wife executed a deed by which the land in controversy was conveyed to their son, Leander Begley. The consideration expressed in the deed was “four hundred dollars to them in hand paid by note and for said Leander Begley’s dowery in Parris Begley’s estate.” The grantee, Leander Begley, was then an inmate of a state institution for the insane, to which he had…