Severi v. Neville

LETTS, Judge.

The grantee named in an eleven year old executed and recorded warranty deed, here appeals a trial court decision to cancel and nullify the conveyance. We reverse.

Other than the fact that the daughter took her mother to a lawyer’s office, there is no evidence in the record to sustain the trial judge’s finding that the appellant/daughter exerted undue influence over her mother when the latter deeded her house to the former in 1966, retaining possession by means of a life estate set forth therein.

We have read the testimony carefully and, although the direct and cross-examination of…