Bates v. Kleve

— The defendants, B. J. Eleve and Thresia A. Eleve, were married about the year 1896. At about the same time, B. J. Eleve purchased of his mother a certain 240-acre farm which these parties occupied as their home and upon which they reared their nine children. In 1908 the deed in controversy was executed by the husband to the wife for the consideration of $1.00, love and affection; the $1.00 was paid and the deed was actually delivered and remained in the wife’s possession but was never placed of record until shortly after the bank was placed in the hands of a receiver in 1934. No reason or…