118 Iowa 276 | Iowa | 1902
The lots in controversy were owned by N. J. Beedy, who, on the 11th day of November, 1880, conveyed them to his wife. The only consideration was love and affection. The deed recited that the grantor does “hereby sell and convey unto the said LucyH. Beedy” the property described, and that “it is understood and agreed that the above conveyance is to be good and valid during the life of said Lucy H. Beedy, the grantee, but at her death the property, or the value thereof, to revert to the heirs of said Lucy H. and N. J. Beedy.” Then follow the usual covenants of seizure and title. The defendants are children of the grantor by a former marriage, but had attained their majority, and were not living with him, when the conveyance was executed. He was then fifty-three years of age, and the grantee forty, and they had been married several years. The plaintiff was born May 30, 1881. N. J. Beedy occupied the premises as a homestead until his death, in January, 1891, and thereafter his wife, Lucy, continued such occupancy up to some time in 1897. She then leased the lots, reserving rooms in the house for the storage of the furniture, and took ■ others . in Fayette for a time, and later went to a sanitarium, where she died in August, 1899.