Eavesdropping Son

EAVESDROPPING SON.

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Peculiar Case on Trial Before Judge Donovan.

The property troubles between David Boyce and Mrs. Thorne, brother and sister, and their mother, Mrs. Bridget Boyce, were before Judge Donovan in Detroit yesterday. This is an Ypsilanti case. The father of the complainants deeded his farm to his wife, and they are trying to show that it was not his real intention to do so. The son testified to listening under his fathers window one night and hearing him beg his wife to do something to ease the pain from which he was suffering. According to the son, she refused to do so unless he promised to deed her the farm. He made the promise, and the next day they went to town and had the deed drawn. Mrs. Bridget Boyce flatly denies all the charges made against her. The son admitted that the reason the suit to set aside the deed was begun was because his sister and himself feared that the mother would leave the property to a person to whom she was related. The manner of Judge Donovan expresses considerable surprise that a son should prosecute such a suit against his mother. - Detroit News.