Scripps v. King

In his lifetime Elisha H. Blanchard, being the owner of the land in dispute, on the 13th day of April, 1861, conveyed it to one William Allen, and he two days after conveyed it to Lucy K., the wife of Blanchard. This arrangement grew out of the fact that Blanchard was dissipated, and the conveyance was made at the solicitation of relatives of the wife. Something more than a year afterwards she executed a deed for the land directly to her husband, and they resided on it until his death, and she has resided on it since. Blanchard died on the 4th of June, 1865, having made a will by which he…