Hier v. Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance

This is an appeal from the district court of Roosevelt county. Roman Temmel and his wife, Mary Temmel, were residents and farmers in Roosevelt county. Temmel was an Austrian and spoke the English language indifferently. He was a man of excitable character and eccentric habits, although withal industrious, frugal, and reasonably capable in business affairs. His wife had been previously married and had at least one child by that union.

The Temmels occupied certain lands which were apparently handled as a farm unit. The legal title to part of these lands stood in the name of the husband, and a…