Burton v. Burton
Burton v. Burton
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The appellant at the time of her marriage with J. W. Burton was the owner of considerable real estate in the county of Mason, inherited by her from her father. After her marriage, herself and husband lived upon her land, but the husband desiring to change his location induced the appellant to consent to a sale, and invest the proceeds in other real estate. It seems that.the husband expressed a wish to have the land purchased with the proceeds of the wife’s land conveyed directly to him, as a means of enabling him to obtain credit in his business transactions. The appellant agreed with the husband to sell her land and that a deed might be made to him provided he would arrange it, by will or otherwise, that if he died first she was to become the owner of the land bought with the proceeds of her land. This the husband agreed to do, as the proof clearly shows. Her land was sold and other land bought with the money, a deed made to the husband, who in a short time afterwards was taken suddenly ill and died without securing the property to the wife. The wife was induced to divest herself of the title all her estate by reason of this agreement and on the part of the husband — it was -his duty at the time he made the investment with
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