Owens v. Sweat

Stukes, Justice.

The illiterate plaintiff in this action, now respondent, owned and operated for many years a farm in Marion County from which he derived a livelihood for himself and his wife. At above sixty years of age in 1947 he suffered a paralytic stroke which was diagnosed by the medical witness as cerebral arteriosclerosis, after which and because of his resulting incapacity his present wife managed and operated the farm. He had been formerly married and separated, and his first wife is living although there was evidence that she may have forfeited her inchoate right of dower in his…