Legal Opinion

Jones v. Evans

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided June 21, 1838PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Cl-IANCERY. From the CntcuiT Court for Montgomery County.

1Opinion of the Court

Judge Ewing-

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The appellants, a part of the heirs of Mayberry Evans, deceased/filed their bill seeking to obtain a cancelment of a deed purporting to be executed by said Mayberry to his two sons, Mayberry Evans, junior, and William Evans, dated tlie 30th of August, 1823: first — because, as they allege, the grantor, at the time of its execution-, was, by reason of old age, infirmity and disease, incapable of making contracts, and was influenced to execute it without a capacity to understand it, by his two sons, the grantees; second — because the undertaking on…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Missouri Pacific Railroad v. BrazzilTexas Supreme Court · 1888
  2. Hager v. Pacific Mut. Life InsuranceDistrict Court, E.D. Kentucky · 1942

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