Sprague v. Duel
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal, from a decree of the vice chancellor of the eighth circuit, dismissing the complainant’s bill. The opinion of the vice chancellor, containing a statement of the material facts in the case, will be found in 1 Clarke's Chan. Reports, 90.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
Two questions are presented for consideration, upon the pleadings and proofs in this case: 1. Whether R. Sprague, the father of the complainants, was so destitute of mental capacity as to be incapable in law of executing a valid deed? 2. Whether an unconscientious advantage was taken of a weakened and impaired mind, to obtain a conveyance from him which ought not, in equity, to be sustained? And upon both of these questions I think the vice chancellor arrived at a correct conclusion.. Although some of the witnesses swear, in general terms, to the mental incapacity of R. Sprague…
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