Mayer v. Swift

Henry, Associate Justice.—

Lavinia Swift was a very old woman, who had by investing her small earnings acquired title to a house and lot in the city of Houston.

She had no other property, had no relatives, and had become helplessly infirm.

She lived in the house with an old and infirm man named Minnick, who cultivated the garden and aided her in other respects.

Minnick was talking about going away, and Jacob Mayer opened negotiations about undertaking her support in consideration of a conveyance of the house and lot to him.

Appellee testified that her proposition was that she should devise the…