Griswold v. Hazels

This is an appeal by defendants from a decree setting aside a conveyance of real estate. Plaintiffs on January 16, 1893, and for many years prior thereto, were husband and wife, and, with their children, resided upon their farm in Pawnee county, consisting of 160 acres, as their homestead. On said date they conveyed said farm to the defendant George Hazels, in exchange for an elevator owned by the latter situated in Sabethá, Kansas, and for ten shares of stock in the Fairmont Building Association of Fairmont, this state. The ground of action is that plaintiffs were induced to make the trade…