Bosley v. Laverick
Bosley v. Laverick
Opinion of the Court
In August, 1907, this plaintiff, Elizabeth Bosley, conveyed to the defendant, Charles E. Laverick, by quitclaim deed, for the nominal consideration of one dollar, a quarter section o'f land in Furnas county. Mr. Laverick was acting as an intermediary, and as a part of the same transaction he, together with his wife, conveyed the same land to Emanuel A. Bosley, the plaintiff’s husband. This conveyance was also a quitclaim deed and for the nominal consideration of one dollar. After the death of Emanuel A. Bosley, the plaintiff began this action against his heirs and the said Laverick in the district court for Furnas county to cancel said conveyances. The district court found generally in her favor and entered a judgment canceling the deeds. Some of the defendants made default; others have contested the suit, and have appealed to this court. The defendants in their brief say that two questions are presented: “First. Did the appellee on the 2d day of August, 1907, freely and voluntarily join in the execution of the deed whereby the premises in controversy were conveyed through a trustee to her husband? Second. Was the appellee through ‘deceit, fraud, and misrepresentation induced to execute the deed and to believe that her
The petition alleges that the plaintiff was married to Mr. Bosley in January, 1898; that she then had four children by a former husband, and that she had dower and homestead rights in a valuable farm of 160 acres in Pumas county and was the-owner of personal property of the value of $2,100; that the farm in suit was purchased wholly with her money, the proceeds of her property; that Mr. Bosley at the time of their marriage had no property whatever; that, when the said deeds of the property in question were made, the plaintiff was old, infirm and ill, believed that she was in her last illness, and “wholly ignorant of business methods,” and “by reason of said sickness * * * wholly incapacitated from properly attending to matters of business”; that she desired, in case of her death, that her husband should “have the use and control of the aforesaid described land after the death of the plaintiff during the lifetime of the .said Emanuel Bosley, and no longer”; and that Mr. Bosley, knowing this, and taking advantage of her sickness and ignorance, procured her to execute the aforesaid deed, which was an absolute conveyance on its face. The petition is quite lengthy and contains other similar allegations that it is not necessary now to recite. The answer admits the marriage and the conveyance and other formal matters, and denies generally the other allegations of the petition. There is no allegation in the answer that Mr. Bosley at any time owned any property, or that he in any way contributed to the purchase of the property in question.
That the plaintiff was ill and confined to her bed at the time of the execution of the deed in question seems to be admitted, but it is contended that the evidence does not show that any special effort was made by the parties present to persuade the plaintiff to execute the deeds instead of a life lease. The evidence shows without contradiction
The decree of the district court is right, and is
Affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Elizabeth Bosley v. Charles E. Laverick
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