McConnell v. McConnell

The facts in this case will sufficiently appear from the opinion of the court, delivered by

Redeield, Chancellor.

In this case the bill was originally drawn, as it may well be, with a double aspect, so that if the orator fails of establishing one ground of recovery, he may rely upon another, which may be wholly or in part inconsistent with the former.

In the present case, the orator charges in his bill that his and defendant’s father, many years since, was fraudulently induced by the defendant, while in a weak and infirm state of bodily health, and almost wholly non compos mentis, to make a very…