Oard v. Oard

This case, in all its essential features, is like Frazier v. Miller, 16 Ill. 49, and falls within the authority of that decision. A father, upwards of seventy years of age, induced by the promise of his son to support him and his almost equally aged wife, in comfort during the remainder of their lives, conveyed his farm to his son’s wife, and transferred to his son all his personal property. The son took possession of the farm, and, by his continued unkiudness and ill treatment, in little upwards of a year compelled his parents to leave and take refuge with another child. This bill is brought…