Keating v. Augustine

Mary J. Spates, who will hereafter, for brevity, be designated as the ‘ ‘ grantor, ’ ’ and who died in Mahaska County, Iowa, sometime in midsummer of 1931, had lived in that county for many years. It appears that she was divorced in 1927. She was a soldier’s widow and received a pension.

The storm center of this litigation is a transaction which took place on the 25th day of January, 1929, when the grantor executed a deed for eighty acres of her land in favor of the defendant, J. D. Augustine, her nephew. At that time, she was the owner of 240 acres of land in Mahaska County. 160 acres of this…