Oldham v. Sale

Some time in the year 1803 or 1804, Richard Oldham, then about seventeen or eighteen years of age, being entitled to one undivided third part of lot No. 13, in the' town (now city) of Louisville, owned jointly by himself and his brother, John P. Oldham, and sister, Abigail Churchill, made a verbal sale of his interest therein to Samuel Churchill, his brother-in-law, for the price of £50 then paid to him; and shortly after his marriage with the plaintiff in error, that is, in the year 1809, after he had attained majority, he and his said wife, she then being in her minority, made to the said &…