Johnson v. Jouchert

The questions for decision arise out of the following facts:

In January, 1884, Mrs. Grubbs, wife of Thomas J. Grubbs, was the owner of forty acres of land in Gibson county which she inherited from her father. She attempted to convey the land directly to her husband by a deed containing covenants of warranty, her purpose in making the conveyance being to enable her husband to mortgage it as security for a loan of four hundred dollars, which he had negotiated from the agent of Jouehert. The money was loaned, and the note of Grubbs, secured by a mortgage on the land, in which both husband and…