Dickey v. Stevens

Grieein Smith, Chief Justice.

Prayer of the'complaint was that certain deeds be cancelled, allegation being that they constituted a cloud on the plaintiff’s title to 99 acres upon which the plaintiff (appellant here) resided.

April 17, 1929, Mary E. Dickey, who had not lived with her husband for several months, agreed to a reconciliation on condition that he deed the farm to her, . . . “and on failure to come back home and live with [appellant] the deed becomes null and void.”

A deed reciting one dollar and “the care, love, and respect shown me during our married life” as consideration, was…