Payne v. Payne

For some time prior to March 28, 1919, Elijah L. Payne and his wife, Elizabeth S. Payne, owned as tenants by entirety certain lands located on the S. E. % of section 10 of Lilley township, Newaygo county, Michigan. On that date they executed a deed of substantially 34 acres of this land, in which deed their only son, Allen E. Payne, the plaintiff herein, was named as grantee. They deeded the remaining portion to their only daughter, Vernnie Almeda Wilson. The plaintiff was present when these deeds were prepared by the scrivener and signed by the grantors. The daughter was not present. - As…