Hanger v. Hess

Plaintiff, Grove Hanger, a carpenter and widower seventy-three years of age, brought this action to cancel a deed to a dwelling, worth about $3,000, given by him to Olive Hess. Mrs. Hess was a young woman, temporarily a divorcee; that is, she divorced her husband George Hess a short time before procuring this deed and remarried him very shortly after procuring it.

There was no trouble about this Hess divorce. As “was testified: “We decided to go to Blackfoot and sign the papers together, so there would be no trouble.....They called us back the next day, so we went and got the divorce. ’ ’ The…