Sherman v. Phelps

The bill herein was filed by plaintiff to set aside deeds she executed and delivered to defendants in January, 1936. The parties were once great friends. In 1934, plaintiff, then 78 years of age and without near relatives, was living alone in a house' she owned in the city of Lansing and suggested to defendants, whom she had known for 40 years, that they come to live with and help care for her. The agreement was verbal and indefinite but defendants complied with the request. Matters were satisfactory and so agreeable to plaintiff that in January, 1936, at her own volition, she executed a will…