Dawson v. Biddle

MERRILL, Justice.

Appellee owned 40 acres of land. He was seventy-five years of age, had never married and was an old age pensioner. He deeded his land to appellants, his niece and her husband, in March, 1956, and a year later brought this suit by filing a bill in equity to cancel the deed under the provisions of Tit. 20, § 15, Code 1940, alleging that a material part of the consideration for the deed was the agreement of the grantees to support him during his life. The trial court found in favor of appellee and this appeal is from the decree granting that relief.

The sole question is whether…