Kellahin v. Henderson

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

By deed dated February 6, and bill of sale dated February 13, 1933, each reciting, but each without consideration, Jason W. James, then in his ninetieth year, crippled and senile, and within six months of his death, gave his ranch and live stock away. Bought within the year by first converting into cash $40,000, nearly the whole of his realizable estate, these properties represented nominally nearly two-thirds, really the greater part of what he owned. The donee, Eugenia I. Henderson, was the wife of Robert Henderson, his ranch manager. It was at Henderson’s instance…