Phillips v. Chase
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Essex on October 14, 1905, by Leonard H. Phillips and others, as the heirs and next of kin of Jeannie P. Chase, late of Swampscott, who died on September 13,1905, praying that a decree of that court entered on April 23, 1889, whereby DeForest Woodruff Chase was made the child by adoption of Jeannie P. Chase, be revoked on the ground that it was procuréd by the undue influence, threats and duress of Horace Chase, the…
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Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Essex on October 14, 1905, by Leonard H. Phillips and others, as the heirs and next of kin of Jeannie P. Chase, late of Swampscott, who died on September 13,1905, praying that a decree of that court entered on April 23, 1889, whereby DeForest Woodruff Chase was made the child by adoption of Jeannie P. Chase, be revoked on the ground that it was procuréd by the undue influence, threats and duress of Horace Chase, the husband of Jeannie P. Chase, and was a fraud upon the court. In the Probate Court Harmon, J., made a decree revoking the…
1Opinion of the CourtKhowltoh, C. J.
This is a petition for a revocation of a *446decree.of the Probate Court for the adoption of DeForest Wood-ruff Chase by Jeannie P. Chase, then the wife of Dr. Horace Chase. The adopted parent was nine years older than her adopted son, whose mother was the first wife of Dr. Chase. It is the contention of the petitioners that the decree of adoption was obtained by fraud upon the Probate Court, through coercion and undue influence exercised upon Jeannie P. Chase by her husband, whereby she was induced to sign and prosecute the petition for adoption. The theory of the present petitioners, upon which…
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