Crump v. Crump

SIMPSON, Justice.

John Howard Crump, seventy-eight years of age, on the eve or day of his second marriage to a widow of his choice, was persuaded by his. children, the appellees here, to convey his real estate to them, reserving to himself “the timber and mineral rights and the right of occupancy of said property during the balance of [his] natural life.” The consideration was $5 and love and affection -and after the execution of the deeds he relented of his purpose and action and sought to repossess said deeds, but they had already been recorded, so a few days later, and after his marriage,…