Goff v. Goff

*202‘The opinion of the court was delivered by

MASON, J.:

In April, 1885, Charles Goff, to whom certificates of purchase for eighty acres of school land had been issued, one-tenth of the purchase price being paid, assigned them to his father, Thomas F. Goff, who took possession, completed the payments, and in 1905 received the patent, thereafter making valuable improvements. In June, 1913, the son brought an action against the father (joining other defendants to whom conveyances had been made subject to a life estate) for the possession of the land, alleging “that he received no consideration for…