Exsted v. Exsted

Gallagher, Chief Justice.

Action to determine adverse claims to realty. Suit is brought by the divorced wife of Harry H. Exsted, deceased, as administra-trix of his estate and as guardian of his sole heir.

The decedent purchased the farm over which this contest is waged from his mother in 1923, giving back a mortgage for $6,913. On September 1, 1930, he and his wife conveyed this and another farm, together with some urban property, to defendant Frank Exsted. In 1932 Harry paid to his mother’s administrator the balance of the mortgage debt remaining unpaid. From 1930 to 1935 Harry let the farm…