Ragan, Dickey & Ragan v. Higgins

Opinion :

The evidence conduces to show that the father of Mrs. Higgins had been for a number of years endeavoring to purchase the sixty acres of land in controversy for the benefit of his daughter, and to attach it to his homestead. It formerly constituted a part of the farm devised to his daughter, and his great desire that his daughter should again own it negatives the idea that the title was to be vested in the husband. It is shown by disinterested parties that the money was given to Mrs. Higgins by her father for the purpose of purchasing this land, and she swears that she retained the…