Todd v. Munson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to set aside a deed, for an injunction, and for damages; brought to the Superior Court. The deed described in the complaint was dated May 81st, 1883, and was executed by Ambrose Todd and Jane R. Todd, his wife, to the defendant Emily C. Munson, their daughter.
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Suit to set aside a deed, for an injunction, and for damages; brought to the Superior Court. The deed described in the complaint was dated May 81st, 1883, and was executed by Ambrose Todd and Jane R. Todd, his wife, to the defendant Emily C. Munson, their daughter. The plaintiff, a son, and the only other child of the grantors in the deed, sought by this proceeding to set the deed aside on the ground of the incompetence of the grantor Jane R. Todd, who was owner of the property, and of undue influence exerted by the defendants. The defendants in their answer denied the incompetency and undue…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
This action as originally brought was to set aside a deed for fraud and undue influence. The defendants in their answer set up another and prior deed, and the plaintiff, in an amended complaint, asks—1st, to have the prior deed reformed so as to express an alleged trust, and 2d, that the trust be enforced.
On the trial the plaintiff offered to prove the supposed trust by parol, and by the testimony of the attorney who drew the deed. An objection to this testimony was sustained by the court, and, judgment having been rendered *588for the defendants, the plaintiff appealed. The objection to the…
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- Dowd v. TuckerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1874
- Collins v. TillouSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1857
- Crocker v. HigginsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1829
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- Peck v. HoytSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1872
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