Lavelle v. Grimes

Citations

• 72 Pa. Super. 10
• 1919 Pa. Super. LEXIS 233

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Cancellation of deed — Fraud and undue influence.</p> <p>A bill in equity praying that a deed made by a father to his daughter and son-in-law be declared null and void on the ground that at the time of its execution the grantor was in his eightieth year and feeble in mind and body, and that the grantee procured the execution of the instrument by fraud and undue influence is properly dismissed where there is a finding, based on competent evidence, that the grantor at the time he made the deed had sufficient mental capacity to understand what he was doing, and that his mind was clear when he transferred the property to his daughter and her husband, and that the grantees had exercised no undue influence over him.</p>