Guill v. Northern

Crawford, Justice.

This was an action of ejectment brought by Mrs. Nancy H. Guill, for herself and as the next friend of her minor children, to recover a house and lot in the town of Sparta, which she on the fourth day of February, 1873, had conveyed to William J. Northern, the defendant below and the defendant in error here.

The deed by which she acquired title was from her husband, made in February, 1869, and recited that the property conveyed was for her sole and separate use during her life, and at her death to be divided between the children of Alexander Guill, the grantor; it being…