Caspari v. First German Church of New Jerusalem
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Adams, J. Advice, persuasion, or entreaty does not constitute undue influence, and will not vitiate a gift made freely and from conviction of its propriety, though such gift might never have been made but for such advice, persuasion, or entreaty. — Howev.
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Adams, J. Advice, persuasion, or entreaty does not constitute undue influence, and will not vitiate a gift made freely and from conviction of its propriety, though such gift might never have been made but for such advice, persuasion, or entreaty. — Howev. Howe, 99 Mass. 99 ; Children’s Aid Society v. Loveridge, 70 N. Y. 394; Gardiner v. Gardiner, 34 N. Y. 155; Breaks v. Breck, 66 N. Y. 144; Barnes v. Barnes, 66 Me. 297; Brown v. Molliston, 3 Whart. 129 ; Zimmerman v. Zimmerman, 23 Pa. St. 375 ; Thompson v. Keyner, 65 Pa. St. 368; Daniel v. Hill, 52…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This is a suit in equity to set aside a deed of gift made by the plaintiff to the church of which she was a member. The church in question is an incorporated religious society known as the First German Church of the New Jerusalem. At the time of the making of the gift, the plaintiff was a widow about seventy-two years of age, infirm in body and feeble in mind, though she had been a person of good intelligence. She had long been a member of this particular religious denomination, and of this particular society. In fact, it was organized in her house some forty years ago, soon after she came to…
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