Kusch v. Kusch

In September, 1887, Frederick Kusch, the appellee, was sixty years of age and a widower, and was the owner in fee of a house and lot in Chicago worth $2500, and a farm in Cook county worth $3000 or more, and owned no other property. On the 27th day of said month of September he conveyed, by two deeds of that date, the said house and lot and the said farm to Charles L. Kusch, the appellant, who was his son and only child. It was stated upon the-face of each of said deeds that it was made “for the consideration of a life maintenance and the sum of one dollar.”

On the 29th day of September, 1888,…