Claeys v. Moldenschardt

Defendant sought to vacate a default judgment entered against her. This relief was denied by the trial court and she appeals.

Plaintiff was appointed guardian of John Moldenschardt, incompetent, and February 26, 1963, filed a petition alleging substantially as follows:

Her ward, a man about 77, had accumulated money and real estate but in recent years failed mentally. Sometime in 1959 he met defendant, about 48, and fell prey to her wiles and demands. By artifice she secured from the incompetent all his savings plus $9600 which he had borrowed, and title by deed to a 183-aere farm owned by him.…