Wright v. Fisher
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on May 31, 1917, in which the plaintiff alleged that Ellen V. Wright, mother of both the plaintiff and the defendant, was improperly and unduly influenced to execute and deliver to the defendant a deed of certain real estate situated in Worcester, and prayed that said deed be cancelled, annulled and destroyed upon the records and for such other and further orders as to the court might seem proper.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on May 31, 1917, in which the plaintiff alleged that Ellen V. Wright, mother of both the plaintiff and the defendant, was improperly and unduly influenced to execute and deliver to the defendant a deed of certain real estate situated in Worcester, and prayed that said deed be cancelled, annulled and destroyed upon the records and for such other and further orders as to the court might seem proper. In the Superior Court the issue quoted in the opinion was referred to a jury, and was tried before Fox, J. Material evidence and exceptions of the…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This is a suit in equity “to have cancelled, annulled and destroyed” a deed of a. (certain tract of land in the city and county of Worcester, on the ground that the deed was procured *72by improper and undue influence exercised upon the grantor by the grantee while the grantor was known to the grantee to be in a weakened physical and mental condition. The bill further alleges that the grantor was induced to execute and deliver the deed to the grantee without any consideration or anything of value., On the motion of the plaintiff the court in the exercise of its discretion and without objection…
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