Goodrich v. Smith

The complainant is an old gentleman, now *2pver 70 years of age. The evidence shows that he is an illiterate man, although he has transacted in his life-time considerable business in the way of buying, selling, and exchanging farms,, and in loaning money, and more than is ordinarily done by people of his class and condition. He was a farmer for many years, owning and living upon several farms in different parts of the country. He finally traded for 17 lots and 13 houses in the city of Hillsdale. He lived in one of these houses in 1888, with his sister, who kept house for him, he having never…