Watson v. Woodruff

*62The opinion of the court was delivered by

Thiele, J.:

This was an action to quiet title to certain real estate in Marion county, Kansas, and grew out of the following:

A. J. Summers had been the owner of the real estate. On October 29, 1933, he died, for more than ten years prior thereto having been a person of unsound mind confined in a hospital for the insane at Cherokee, Iowa. At one time he had made a will giving his property to his sister, Myrie, but, as set out later, she died before he did, and the legacy lapsed.

J. C. Weakley was a resident of the state of Texas. By his first wife he had…