Jones v. Stamps

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Moorman

Affirming.

Willie Jones, the appellant, is attacking the validity of a deed of January 20, 1915, by which he conveyed to Myrtle Stamps, the appellee, a tract of 171 acres of land in Allen county. He seeks to have the conveyance set aside on the gr ound that at the time it was made he was of unsound mind.

In 1909 the appellee, who was then a widow with two children by her former husband, married appellant. Her former husband, Charles Stamps, owned the farm in con*378troversy when he died and appellee, having a dower interest in it but desiring to purchase a home…