Simmon v. Larkin

Bicknell, C. C.

This was a suit by the appellants to rescind a contract because of fraud. The appellants were more than eighty years old; they were living on about forty acres of land owned by them; $100 were due thereon for delinquent taxes; the improvements on the land were scanty and out of repair, and the appellants were too poor to make repairs. They exchanged their land with the appellee, reserving a life-estate in two acres, embracing dwelling-house, stable, garden, *386etc., for a house and lot in Lafayette, which rented for $8 a month, and there was evidence tending to show that the house…