Holland v. Farthing

HEAD, Associate Justice.

This case having been tried in the court-below by the judge without a jury, his conclusions of fact, which we find sustained by the evidence, may be briefly stated as follows:

On October 2,1873, J. A. Truelove, then an unmarried man, purchased the lot in controversy from J. M. Lindsay, paying therefor the sum of $37.50. The deed was first made to said Truelove, but on the same day he had Lindsay to erase his own initials and insert those of his maiden sister, E.'J. Truelove. The deed when so changed appeared upon its face to convey to the grantee, E. J. Truelove, for a…