Legal Opinion

Slafter v. Savage

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided October 18, 1915PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal in Chancery, Windsor County. Heard at Chambers, October 3, 1914, on the pleadings, master’s report, and defendant’s exceptions thereto. Exceptions overruled, and decree for the plaintiff. The defendant appealed. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.

This is a bill in chancery brought by the orator, Edmund Slafter, by his next friend, seeking to have set aside a deed to the defendant from Ira B. Savage, of whom the orator Edmund is the grandson and sole heir, and further seeking for an accounting and for general relief. From a decree, adverse to the defendant, which will hereinafter be referred to, the defendant appeals.

In 1899, Ira B. Savage, then about 81 years of age, was living upon a farm owned by him in the town of Windsor. In March of that year his daughter, Mrs. Mary Slafter, and her husband Charles F. Slafter, parents of the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Allen's Admr. v. Allen's Admr.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1906
  2. Brown v. HullSupreme Court of Vermont · 1844
  3. of Carpenter v. MooreSupreme Court of Vermont · 1871
  4. Bonett ex rel. Bonett v. StowellSupreme Court of Vermont · 1864
  5. Williams v. RitcheyU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kansas · 1874

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3Cited by8 opinions

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