Scott v. Stewart

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vanderbilt, C. J.

In September, 1943, Dennis C. Green, then eighty-three years of age and residing with his niece, the complainant, in Burlington, executed a deed for her benefit to his homestead in Pleasantville, in the office of Judge Charles A. Rigg of Burlington. According to Judge Rigg, the only disinterested witness to the transaction, the circumstances were as follows:

“Well, Dennis Green and Mary Scott came into my office and Mr. Green said that he wanted to convey his property to Mary Scott, that she had paid a lot of taxes and at the present…