Jones v. Hughes
New York Supreme Court
Trial by the court. This action was brought by Edward Hughes against Joseph H. Jones and others, Joseph H. Jones being the son of Richard Hughes who was also known by the name of David Jones. The circumstances are fully stated in the opinion. The complaint alleged that Richard Hughes, otherwise known as David Jones, on or about October 7, 1870, owned Buckhorn Island in the Niagara river, and had done so for a long time previous.
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Trial by the court. This action was brought by Edward Hughes against Joseph H. Jones and others, Joseph H. Jones being the son of Richard Hughes who was also known by the name of David Jones. The circumstances are fully stated in the opinion. The complaint alleged that Richard Hughes, otherwise known as David Jones, on or about October 7, 1870, owned Buckhorn Island in the Niagara river, and had done so for a long time previous. That for a long time previous to that day and thereafter up to his death, he was, and continued to be insane and of unsound mind, without a- lucid interval, and by…
1Opinion of the CourtDaniels, J.
This action has been prosecuted to set aside and annul a deed executed by Bichard Hughes under the name of David Jones to the defendant Joseph Jones, because of the mental incapacity of the grantor.
The deed was executed on the seventh of October, 1870, and recorded on the second day of the succeeding month. It in terms conveyed the property called Buckhorn Island, situated near the foot of Grand Island in Niagara Biver.
It has been owned and occupied by the grantor from the year 1853. The grantee in the deed is a son of the grantor by a second marriage alleged to have been, as it probably was,…
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