Parker v. Betts

This is an action by the heirs at law to cancel a deed of conveyance of real property by their ancestor grantor on the grounds that he was a lunatic when that instrument was signed, and that defendants, the grantees, secured it by perpetrating a fraud upon him. In their answer defendants deny these charges and in an affirmative defense allege title in themselves vested under our seven years statute of limitations. — See. 2923e, 3d Mills’ Rev.'Supp; sec. 4089, Rev. Stats. 1908. To prove the mental incapacity plaintiffs produced a judicial determination of the grantor’s lunacy, and showed that…