Eyler v. Spencer

This suit was filed by seven (Alice G. Eyler and others) of the eight surviving children of Christian G. Wike, deceased, against William M. Spencer, an unrelated friend of the deceased, and the other living child (Edna I. Kries), to set aside a deed from the deceased father (the grantor) to the friend (the grantee) on the grounds that the grantor was not mentally competent to execute the deed and that the grantee induced the execution thereof by artifice and undue influence.

Prior to the death of the wife of the grantor in May of 1960, another daughter, Mary L. Stonesifer, gave up her…