Campbell v. Owen

WHITE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary final decree adverse to the appellant as defendant in the trial below. The decree granted the plaintiff’s prayer for rescission of certain written instruments by which the plaintiff had relinquished to the defendant, his stepdaughter, all his rights and interests in the estate of his deceased wife who was the defendant’s mother.

The complaint alleged that the plaintiff, while hospitalized with an infection, executed the instruments in question without adequate consideration and under misapprehension of his legal rights because of a wrongful…