Martin v. Martin

Ed. F. MoFaddiN, Justice.

Appellee, Marvin Martin (a minor), by his guardian and next friend, Vesta Rohe (now Taylor) filed this suit against appellant, Mrs. Nettie Martin, praying that the minor be decree^ to be the owner of certain real estate in Boone county, known' and referred to as the “Touch-Me-Not Place,” devised to him by the will of his father, L. M. Martin. From a decree granting the relief prayed, there is this appeal.

L. M. Martin was at one tipie a respectable citizen. He had a wife (appellant) and three daughters. In 1932, he began an illicit -relationship with Mrs. Vesta Rohe,…