Witherington v. Eldredge

This is a suit in equity to cancel a deed executed by Helen Farnsworth Eldredge, the plaintiff’s intestate, and her deceased husband, Clarence F. Eldredge, whereby they conveyed, through a third person, a certain parcel of real estate owned by them jointly to Clarence F. Eldredge, it being alleged that the deed was executed without consideration, that Eldredge induced his wife to execute it by false representations, and that at the time of such execution she was of unsound mind and without mental capacity to make the conveyance. The defendant Marion W. Eldredge, who is a daughter of Eldredge…