Shaffer v. Cowden

We entirely agree with the learned Judge who decided this case below that it is one not free from diffi*395culty. This difficulty arises, not because there is or can be any doubt as to the legal principles involved, but wholly in consequence of the flat conflict in the testimony of the two contesting parties. The undisputed facts are few. The appellant purchased from one Snyder, a farm for the sum of six thousand eight hundred and six dollars, paying the whole of the purchase money. Under an arrangement of some sort between her and the appellee, who is her nephew, the «deed conveying the title…