Pershing v. Ward

OPINION OF THE COURT

SIMMS, J.

It appears that plaintiff and defendant are related by marriage, and for the past 15 or 20 years have been engaged in speculative land ventures in various parts of the country. Plaintiff had resided in Texas for several years prior to this suit, and 'is a map of middle age. Defendant has always resided in Missouri, and is much older. Just how much money the older man has put up for the younger in the last 10 or 15 years, in the shape of notes, drafts, and checks for various purposes, is not material here.

In 1917, plaintiff owned a two-story building in Artesia, on…