Dill v. Karcher

Citations

• 12 Del. Ch. 9
• 102 A. 781
• 1918 Del. Ch. LEXIS 10

Syllabus

<p>As ground for avoiding a deed from a father, not shown mentally incompetent, to a daughter, it cannot, in the absence of evidence, be assumed he was unduly influenced because he was living with and was taken care of by her, and was old and physically infirm.</p> <p>Deed of gift from a man eighty-five years old and physically infirm to a daughter with whom he was living of half of his small farm,- including the buildings, productive of little net income, reserving a life estate, he having other children with whom he had lived, and who' had manifested solicitude for and filial duty towards him, will not be set aside after his death as improvident.</p>