Foust v. Hill

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Affirming.

Barbara Troxel owned a tract of thiee hundred acres of land in McCreary county on which she and her husband, Washington Troxel, lived. They had only one daughter, Litha, who was the wife of R. L. Foust. She had another daughter, Selina, who was-the wife of Jake Troxel. In 1891 she and her husband were getting old;; Selina had married and was living with her husband on .another farm. Litha was living with her husband on a farm owned by him in Tennessee. The old people proposed to R. L. Foust to deed him the farm on condition that he would…