Long v. Crosson

Mitchell, J. —

The following facts present the question for decision : Mattie Long, wife of James Long, being the owner in her own right of a certain lot in the town of Fowler, in Benton county, executed a deed, in which her busbaud joined, by which she conveyed the lot to John Dempsey for the nominal consideration of fifteen hundred dollars. Dempsey, on the same day, for a like consideration, conveyed the. property to James Long, husband of Mattie Long. There *4was no consideration actually paid or agreed to be paid for either of the foregoing conveyances, they having been made merely to invest…