Hill v. Harritt

The parties are in accord upon the principles of substantive law governing this cause. The only serious problem which awaits solution concerns the inferences to be drawn from the evidence, a brief statement of which we shall now undertake to make.

Subsequent to their marriage, and prior to 1926, the two defendants, K. W. and Alves Harritt, had lived upon a 33-acre farm in Polk county. The ownership of this farm, and of another in the same county, came to Harritt by inheritance from his parents. Subsequent to the death of the parents, Harritt’s brothers and sisters executed a deed conveying…