Willis v. Matthews

Gould, Associate Justice.

In April, 1860, at the time of the marriage of L. L. Matthews to Laura Sapp, the live hundred and eighty-one and a half acres of land in controversy in this suit was owned by H. R. Jones and L. W. Matthews, father of L. L. In June following, Jones sold and conveyed his undivided interest to L. L. Matthews, the purchase-money being subsequently paid out of the separate means of the wife. Immediately after this purchase, it is claimed that the father, L. W. Matthews, made to his son a verbal gift of the other undivided half interest in the land, placed him in…