Northup v. Hall

Citations

• 228 Pa. 20
• 76 A. 429
• 1910 Pa. LEXIS 423

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Cancellation—Deed—Fraud■—Undue influence.</p> <p>Where a woman seventy-nine years of age, six months prior to her death, executes a deed of real estate to two of her nieces, retaining control thereof during her own lifetime, in consideration of a home and support for the remainder of her life in the old homestead where she was born and reared, which homestead was owned by the two nieces and their sister, such deed will not be canceled where the evidence shows that the purpose of the grantor was to secure a home for herself in the old homestead and the enjoyment of her property by the two favored nieces after her death, and that the deed was prepared by her own attorney at her instance, and without any compulsion, duress or misrepresentations upon the part of the grantees.</p>