Packard v. Packard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal which involves the law relating to advancements made by a parent to three of his children and a consideration of the pertinent *645facts which determine whether certain conveyances made to them in their early childhood were outright gifts or advancements to be charged against them in the division of their father’s estate.

The litigants are the children of August Packard; the plaintiffs were born of one mother and the defendants of another.

August Packard lived for many years in Dickinson county. He was an ignorant and curious…