Overstreet v. Beadles

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action to set aside certain deeds to Butler county lands. Plaintiffs were a daughter and several grandchildren of the late Mrs. Mary A. Beadles, of Butler county. The defendant was her son. He and his wife lived on the old home farm with his mother for many years — with the not unusual result that when she died he was in possession of some unrecorded deeds to certain lands in which his mother had held an interest, about which deeds, however, the other heirs knew nothing.

It appears that on September 10, 1897, one William M.…