Stanley v. Martin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

These two actions, consolidated for trial, were brought to set aside deeds to certain lands and city property which a mother had conveyed to her daughters some six years before her death and which were not recorded during the mother’s lifetime.

The motive which prompted the actions was to uncover enough property in the mother’s otherwise insolvent estate to satisfy the debt of one of her sons, for which she had been accepted as coobligor on her repeated representations that she owned these properties and was collecting the rents therefrom.

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