Greer v. Greers
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity, instituted in the Circuit court of Scott county by Noah and Moses Greer, sons of Shadrach Greer, to set aside two deeds made by their father a short time before his death, by which he conveyed his estate, which he had not previously given to his children, to his son Isaac Greer. The grounds on which it was sought to set aside the deeds, were, incapacity on the part of the grantor, and fraudulent practices on the part of Isaac Greer.
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This was a suit in equity, instituted in the Circuit court of Scott county by Noah and Moses Greer, sons of Shadrach Greer, to set aside two deeds made by their father a short time before his death, by which he conveyed his estate, which he had not previously given to his children, to his son Isaac Greer. The grounds on which it was sought to set aside the deeds, were, incapacity on the part of the grantor, and fraudulent practices on the part of Isaac Greer. To give all the facts of this case, would be to write a volume, and would be a very useless consumption of time and occupation of…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The bill in this case is filed to set aside two deeds executed by Shadrach Greer to his son Isaac Greer. They are assailed upon two grounds: First, that by reason of extreme old age and disease, his memory and judgment were so much impaired as to disqualify him from making a valid disposition of his property by deed or will; and second, that the appellant procured the deeds from him by the exercise of undue influence over a mind weakened by the infirmities of age and sickness. Upon the hearing of the cause, issues were directed to ascertain whether at the time of executing the deeds the…
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