Gridley v. Boggs
California Supreme Court
Appeal by plaintiff from the judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Butte, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial. Hundley, J. Action to set aside a deed and contract on the ground of fraud. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. After the decision in department a petition for hearing in bank was presented and denied.
1Opinion of the Court
McKinstry, J.:
The action, commenced by George W. Gridley in his lifetime, is prosecuted by plaintiff, appellant, as the administratrix of his estate, to obtain a decree setting aside a deed made by him September 4,1879, to certain of the defendants (John Boggs, E. B. Pond and C.W, Clarke), and also an accompanying *197contract executed by them declaring trusts in favor of named creditors of said George W. Gridley and one D. M. Reavis.
The complaint alleges that for more than five years next before the first day of December, 1880, George W. Gridley was continuously feeble and diseased in body, and…
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