Manwell

An appeal taken by defendants from a judgment declaring certain deeds signed and acknowledged by Mrs. Clementine H. Manwell in her lifetime to be null and void, and that the administrator of her estate is entitled to the possession of the real property described therein.

Mrs. Manwell on January 23, 1923, signed and acknowledged two deeds describing the property involved in this action, upon which she resided, and delivered the same into the possession of C. -V. Sturdevant. One of the deeds in terms gave a life estate in the property to defendant Elizabeth Y. Felts, and the other the remainder to defendant The Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a corporation. With the deeds she signed and delivered to Sturdevant the following letter:

In March, 1923, on account of her age and increasing debility and at her own request a proceeding for the appointment of a guardian for Mrs. Manwell was instituted, and a guardian of her estate was duly appointed.

On March 3, 1923, she executed a will, which refers to the same property and contains the following devise: “To my nephew Wilbur Mowry and his wife, Alice, of Warsaw, Indiana, I give one half of…