Hubbell v. Donaldson

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

About October 11, 1948, Mrs. Maude Donaldson, a widow, signed and acknowledged a combined deed and will in which she stated that she had no children; that Billie Donaldson was her adopted son; that, in consideration of love and affection for John Hubbell, her ranch foreman, she did thereby convey unto Hubbell an undivided one-half interest in all the real estate owned by her “save and except the two half sections of land hereinafter willed to Billie Donaldson, and save and except a life estate hereby retained hereinafter and reserved unto myself, and save and except all…