Harrison v. Davis

SMITH, Justice.

The record presents a sorry. spectacle exemplified in the life of D. N. Hays, a miserly old bachelor whose advancing years brought him a considerable estate which he accumulated and'preserved while living in isolation, squalor, filth, loneliness, and suspicion. Shortly prior to his death at the age of 80 years, he conveyed all his estate to S. N. Harrison, for the alleged consideration of the latter’s agreement to take care of him during the remainder of his miserable life, which lasted only a few months longer. The record shows, however, and the jury found, that he made the…