Benson v. Benson

The plaintiff, a widow, brought suit in equity against three of her children, the defendants herein, to quiet title to a two-thirds interest in a quarter section of land in Minnehaha county and a third interest in a certain quarter section of land in Moody county, S. D. The court found that she was 89 years of age; that she did not read the English language and except for language common in daily use had some difficulty in understanding the English language. On the 22d day of August, 1930, at the solicitation of defendants Sverdrup M. Benson and Matilda L. Thompson, a son and a daughter,…