Hart v. Hart

Nicholas Simpson died intestate, October 21, 1912. Shortly before, on August loth of the same year, he executed to defendant a conveyance of the land on which he resided, said in the deed to be “45 acres more or less,” and by a witness to be about 33 acres. Therein a life estate is reserved to plaintiff, Mary Elizabeth Hart, and the conveyance is subject thereto. Simpson never married. Miss Hart was his niece, being the daughter of Simpson’s sister, and came to his home in March, 1878. For about a year and one half she had been an inhabitant of a poorhouse in Ohio, and, though she was never…