Aiken v. Barnes

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

A conveyance of lands obtained for a grossly inadequate consideration by unfair advantage taken of great mental weakness, though not amounting to absolute incapacity, of the grantor, will in equity be set aside on equitable terms, when application therefor is made seasonably by the grantor, his representatives or heirs. Waddell v. Lanier, 62 Ala. 347-349; Shipman v. Furniss, 69 Ala. 555, 562, 44 Am.Rep. 528; Burke v. Taylor, 94 Ala. 530, 10 So. 129; Allore v. Jewell, 94 U.S. 506, 24 L.Ed. 260; Harding v. Handy, 11 Wheat. 103, 125, 6 L. Ed. 429; Raymond v. Wathen, 142 Ind.…