Taylor v. Shields

OPINION

By HORNBECK, PJ.

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Common Pleas Court granting, in part, the relief sought by plaintiffs in their petition. Plaintiffs’ next of kin of Leon W. Taylor, deceased, sought to have a deed for certain property described in the petition from Leon W. Taylor to defendant Mary L. Shields cancelled because at the time that the deed was executed the grantor was of unsound mind, incapable of appreciating the nature of the transaction and the defendant exercised undue influence upon Taylor to cause him to make the deed.

On request of counsel…