Newton v. Newton's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

John W. Newton lived in Butler county and had a number of sons; the last of whom to leave the old home was George B. Newton.- Previous to 1887 John W. Newton had sold to a negro man 105 acres of land. The negro failed to pay for it and John W. Newton induced him to give up the land, and at Newton’s request he executed a deed therefor to B. P. Newton, who held the land in trust for his father (John W. Newton), the deed to him being only made for convenience. In 1894 George B. Newton married and after he married bought a farm. He did not have…