Parr v. Campbell

Citations

• 109 Wash. 376
• 186 P. 858
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 893

Syllabus

<p>Deeds (21-1, 63)—Validity—Mental Capacity—Evidence—Sufficiency. A finding of mental capacity on the part of a woman aged eighty to execute a deed to her daughter, with whom she had made her home for years, is sustained, although relatives testified she was childish, where disinterested witnesses testified to facts showing more than ordinary mental capacity for one of her age.</p> <p>Sajie (21-1, 63)—Validity—Undue Influence—-Evidence—Sufficiency. A finding that a woman eighty years of age was not unduly influenced by her daughter with whom she had resided for years, to execute a deed to her, is sustained by evidence of her sense of obligation to her daughter and repeated expressions of her intent to compensate her; it not being undue influence for a daughter to persuade or solicit her mother to make a conveyance, so long as she was not overborne or rendered incapable of acting upon her own motives.</p>