Grant v. Marshall

A. J. Grant and wife, Florence Grant, owned a community homestead consisting of 157 acres of land in Johnson County. On December 28, 1951, Mr. Grant died intestate and insolvent, leaving as his survivors his wife, Florence Grant, two adult sons and two married daughters. About one year later Mrs. Grant died testate. By her will George Grant, a relative of her husband, was made executor of her estate. A short time before her death Mrs. Grant, joined by all of her children and by respondents, Mattie Marshall and husband, John A. Marshall, executed a deed conveying the homestead to F. E.…