Hensley v. Stevens

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

From a judgment for the plaintiff, Mary Hensley, cancelling a deed on grounds of fraud, undue influence, and breach of' trust, the defendants, pastor Monroe Stevens and his wife-Donna Stevens, appeal.

Plaintiff, who is of Indian extraction, owned approximately twelve acres of real property on Flathead Lake, bnt lived in Antioch, California. In 1958, defendant became pastor of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Antioch, which was located directly across the street from plaintiff’s home. Defendant pastor frequently visited and…