Lafayette v. Brinham

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Linn,

Defendant, appeals from a decree requiring liim to re-convey to plaintiff the interest in land transferred to him by plaintiff. After making findings of fact supporting essential averments in defendant’s answer and negativing the only averments made by plaintiff on which a decree in his favor could be sustained, the court held, on construing the deed, that, in law, it was ineffective for the purpose intended and should be set aside.

The plaintiff, in his 79th year, conveyed certain real estate (substantially all his property) to himself and his step-son, the…