Clements v. Olsen

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing an action for rescission and cancellation of a deed.

In the fall of 1942, Charles Clements, then of the approximate age of sixty-four years, purchased an eighty-acre tract of farm land in Clark county. The purchase price was five’ thousand dollars, of which the respondents supplied five hundred dollars. Mrs. Olsen is his niece. The January following the purchase, he persuaded the Olsens to move in with him under some sort of an oral agreement that they would care for him and he would will his property to Mrs. Olsen. He executed the will. After they…