McLean v. Wortman

Once again we must face the perennially vexing problem posed by an elderly and usually ailing plaintiff who has conveyed his or her property to others in return for their promise to provide support and a home and later has repented of the bargain and sought to set the transaction aside.

In March, 1950, the plaintiff Millie Maxted was a wid'ovl over 70; she lived alone on a run-down 60-acre farm in Napoleon township some 10 miles from Jackson; her husband (and father of the woman defendant by an earlier marriage) had died the previous December and their children had long since' grown up and…