Simmons v. Stevens

Citations

• 118 S.C. 342
• 110 S.E. 798

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wife—Parent and Child—Income Due Wife and Children, Collected and Used by Husband for a Long Period, Presumed a Gift.—Where husband conveyed his farm to wife for support of .herself and children, and thereafter purchased other land, and caused conveyance to be made to wife, who conveyed land to son in trust for her support, and husband was thereafter permitted, without objection by wife or children, to remain in possession of the land, collect the rents, and treat the income as his pwn for a period of 35 years as to the first tract, and for 25 years as to the second tract, it will be presumed, on husband’s death, that the husband received the income from the wife and the children by way of a gift.</p>