Davis v. Pitti

HENRY I. EAGER, Special Commissioner.

This is an action by three sisters against another sister and her husband to cancel a deed from their father. The deed was a quit-claim of a four-family apartment building in St. Louis to the defendant sister and the father as joint tenants; the father died thirteen days after the deed was executed. The grounds alleged and relied on at the trial were mental incapacity and undue influence; others were alleged and abandoned. The trial court cancelled the deed on the ground of undue influence and defendants appealed.

The grantor, Joseph Stallone, was an…