Cohen

— In the year 1883 there was a treaty or agreement of marriage pending between the plaintiff, then a young unmarried woman, and Alfred H. Cohen. Cohen was then a young lawyer just beginning the practice of his profession, and having no income or means sufficient to procure a home and support a family; and they were both unwilling to get married until they had a home. These facts coming to the knowledge of Watson A. Bray, the father of plaintiff, he concluded, in order to encourage the consummation of said marriage, to convey to plaintiff a lot of land and build a house thereon as a home for the young couple, provided the father of said Cohen would furnish it. After some conferences between the said Bray and the father of said Cohen, the proposition was accepted by the latter; whereupon Bray, on July 12,1883, conveyed a lot of land, being the premises described in the complaint herein, to the plaintiff, then Emma Bray, and proceeded immediately to build a house thereon, which was completed in the early part of 1884. This was done with the knowledge of Cohen, and he was consulted about it. The house was furnished by said Cohen’s father. In February, 1884, plaintiff and *272 Alfred…