Hensan v. Cooksey

This is an appeal from a decree setting aside a deed, and the principal question in the case is the sufficiency of the evidence.

Ann M. Hensan, the appellee, is the mother of the appellant, John B. Cooksey. At the time of the conveyance, November 26, 1904, she was seventy-four years old. The property conveyed was a farm of ninety acres, which had been her home but for several years had been rented and not occupied by her. She owned no other property except some grain and hay on the farm, which was taken by appellant, and some money which she claimed appellant held for her and which he denied…