Bowe v. Bowe

Tbe bill in this ease was filed to set aside a mortgage given by parents in extreme old age to a son.

In August, 1877, the complainants, who then owned a little farm of thirty acres in Van Burén county, worth perhaps fifteen hundred dollars, conveyed the same to their son, the defendant, on an understanding that he was to take possession of and work it, and to give them a support and home in his family. To secure the support a life lease was given back. The father was then seventy-five years of age, the mother somewhat younger. The son was married, and there seems to have been on the part of…