Hansen v. Hansen

McDonough, justice.

Mrs. Emma J. Mortensen, mother of plaintiff and defendant, died in April, 1944. She was nearly 90 years old. Shortly after her death, plaintiff requested defendant to sign a quitclaim deed as an attempt to remedy a misdescription of property in a warranty deed executed by the mother on May 19, 1932, whereby the property theretofore owned by the mother was ostensibly conveyed to the plaintiff with a reservation to the mother of a life-estate and all of the rents, issues and profits to her during her lifetime. Defendant refused to execute any deed, and plaintiff brought this…