Barr v. Wood

Citations

• 27 Wash. 57
• 67 P. 368
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 461

Syllabus

<p>CONVEYANCES — RESCISSION-WANT OE CONSIDERATION.</p> <p>A conveyance by the heirs of the wife’s interest in a community estate to the surviving husband may be set aside, when it appears that the grantors were simple-minded, illiterate people, who had intended to give the grantee merely a life estate in their portion of the property, in consideration of his drawing up papers so as to cause their interests to revert to them at his death; that at the time of the execution of such conveyance to^ him there was some talk of his providing for the grantors by a testamentary devise, but that they did not understand that he meant thereby the execution of a will in their favor, but an instrument whereby their rights could be protected and enforced; and that notice of the rescission of the conveyance was given him by some of the grantors before the execution of the contract on his part.</p>