Rouse v. Rouse

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

'Johanna Bouse died a resident of Daviess county in March, 1916, leaving surviving her, her 'husband, Lindsay Bouse, and two children, C. B. Bouse and Mary A. Bouse, now Lanham. At the time of her death the family lived on a tract of thirty-eight acres of land conveyed by J. H. Hickman on April 20, 1895. The deed was recorded and, as recorded, the grantee in the deed was “Johanna Bouse wife of Lindsay Bouse:”

*416In August, 1916, Lindsay Rouse, the father, filed an action in the Daviess circuit court in which he alleged that this deed had been…