Goethe v. Gmelin

John Johnson, a widower 70 years of age, married Amelia Keinath, a widow 68 years old, at Lansing, in January, 1918. Each had children by a former marriage. He at that time owned two adjacent lots in Lansing, on one of which a house then stood. In the summer of that year, a bungalow was built on the vacant lot, and they moved into it and it was thereafter their home. On September 24th of that year, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson conveyed this property to Harry A. Young and Daisy Young, and they deeded back to the Johnsons, “husband and wife, jointly,” thereby creating an estate in them by the…