Mathias v. Miller

On August 14, 1907, one Casander E. Berry filed her hill in equity in the circuit court of Moultrie county, wherein she alleged that she was eighty years of age and was unable, by reason of her lack of education, to read or write; that owing to her lack of education and business qualifications she was compelled to rely and had for many years relied implicitly upon the statements made to her by those with whom she did business; that for a number of years she had been the sole owner of a certain described forty acre tract of land in Moultrie county, and that she was possessed of but little, if…