Wathens v. Skaggs

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hannah

— Affirming.

In November, 1909, Joseph H. Wathen and Sarah N. Wathen, his wife, the former being about eighty-eight years of age, and the latter about seventy, resided upon a farm in Larue county, comprising about one hundred acres.

They had previously conveyed this farm to their daughter, Martha Puryear, in consideration of her undertaking and agreement to support and maintain them during their respective lifetimes. She, however, had Repudiated or abandoned her contract, and had executed *601an attempted assignment thereof and of her rights thereunder, to one…