McCleary v. Lewis

The circuit court of Wayne county set aside a certain administratrix’s deed issued under proceedings in the county court of that county for sale of real estate to pay debts. It also set aside the deed of the purchaser at that sale to the appellant Elizabeth K. Lewis, who was the administratrix of the estate. The chancellor found a fiduciary relation existed between Lewis and the appellees and that the record showed an abuse of that confidential relation. The chancellor found that the appellees are the owners by devise and inheritance of the eighty acres of land involved, subject to an oil and…