Huguenin v. Adams
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before DeVore, J., Richland, April term, 1917. Action in equity by Mary A. Huguenin and others against Julius H. Adams and another to set aside a deed.
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Before DeVore, J., Richland, April term, 1917. Action in equity by Mary A. Huguenin and others against Julius H. Adams and another to set aside a deed. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal. . submit: That while in cases for setting aside conveyances between parties bearing to each other a highly confidential or trust relations, there exists a well recognised distinction between undue influence actively exercised and cases where reliance is placed solely upon the existence of. confidential or fiduciary relation between the parties, coupled with a transaction or conveyance from the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
Action in equity to set aside a deed from Mrs. Mary A. Huguenin to Julius H. Adams, by which the grantor conveyed to the grantee 1,541 acres of land, confessedly worth nearly $50,000. The action was brought by Mrs. Huguenin, and with her was joined Dr. E. C. L. Adams, to whom she had made a deed of trust to the same land, in repudiation of the deed she had first made to Julius H. Adams. Mrs. Huguenin testified, but she died before the judgment of the Court was pronounced.
The master and the Circuit Court both found against the…
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