Hegwood v. Leeper

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Truman Leeper and Pearl S. Leeper, his wife, executed to his father, J. M. Leeper, an instrument in the form of an ordinary warranty deed to a quarter section of land. The grantees afterwards conveyed the land to W. M. Glenn, receiving in exchange a deed to a town lot, valued at $5000, the title to which was taken in N. E. Stucker, an uncle of Truman Leeper, who canceled a debt of $4000 owed to him by J. M. Leeper and paid $1000 to Glenn. Later Mrs. C. G. Hegwood' and Ferry Wilcox, the mother and uncle of Pearl 5. Leeper, brought an action…