Chisum v. Holbrook

.BLACKBIRD, Justice.

In 1945, Frank Ragsdale, a farmer of Beckham County, owned five quarter-sections of land in said county, was heavily in debt, and was adjudged a bankrupt in proceedings he filed in the Federal Court under the Frazier-Lemke Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 203. At the time of his wife’s death in June, 1947, he had five children, all of whom were grown and married daughters. One of his daughters, Dicie, had married Jack Holbrook, one of his tenants. As Ragsdale was then approximately eighty-five years of age, in poor health and physically incapable of looking after his own needs, Dicie…