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Show ASKS TO HAVE DEED TO LAND SET ASIDE In a suit which has been presented in Judge Morse's court, Daniel Jones is seeking to have a deed to twenty-four twenty-four acres of land at Union set aside, oh the ground that he was physically incapacitated from doing business at the time he deeded the same to Ellen Joyce Evans, his plural wife. Jones declares that in 1901, he fell from a load of hay and for four years was incapacitated from transacting business. While on his deathbed as he supposed, he said, on September 26, 1902, his wife induced him to sign what he supposed was a will, but which was in fact a deed to the land. The wife alleges that she was the plural wife of the plaintiff and that they were married in the endowment i house in 1876, and that ten children J have been born of the marriage. j The legal wife of the plaintiff died in 1!02, and it was worrying over her death that incapacitated Jones from transacting business, the defendant declares. de-clares. She declares that Jones gave her the deed in good faith and to support her and the children. The caser has been submitted to the court on briefs. r I |