Snell v. Prescott

— In 1918 the respondents, H. C. Prescott and Ellen E. Prescott, quit their farm near Nampa. Prescott had purchased Lot 55 of Block 55 of the original town site of Nampa. They had been engaged in farming for over 45 years, part of the time in Minnesota, most of the time in Idaho. Upon moving to town they did not sell the farm nor the stock or personal property on it. It seems their farm consisted of eighty acres of very productive land, forty acres of which were in the name of H. C. Prescott and claimed by him as his separate property, and the other forty were in the name of his wife, Ellen…