McGann v. McGann

In the latter part of the year 1926 Mary McGann was the owner of 160 acres of land in Garfield county, Okla., which she had homesteaded when the Cherokee Strip was opened, and had owned since that time. She was a widow and lived around with her daughters and her three sons, though she spent more time with the defendant, James McGann, than with any of the others, and he had charge of her business. The farm was heavily mortgaged and the taxes were delinquent and foreclosure proceedings were about to be started. An effort was made to find a purchaser and an offer was procured of a little over…