Pearson v. Orcutt

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

John W. Pearson, who died in 1911, left a will which was duly probated and the provisions of which his widow accepted, giving to her at least a life interest in all his property (consisting of an eighty-acre farm and the personal property thereon) coupled with a power of disposition, the extent of which is the question in controversy. On August 13, 1918, about two months before her death, at the age of 84 years, she executed to Raymond Oreutt, a grandson, a deed to the farm, then worth nine or ten thousand dollars. Three children of John W.…