Boerema v. Johnson

This is an appeal in chancery from the order of a circuit judge, entered after hearing, dismissing a bill of complaint to set aside a deed. The deed was given by one John Holden, now deceased, to defendant-appellee Belva Johnson, his landlady in the last 2 years of his life. Plaintiffs-appellants are the 2 executors and the residual legatee of his estate under a will executed prior to the deed in question. The bill of complaint claimed the deed was void because of fraud, undue influence and mental incompetence on the part of decedent.

This being a chancery appeal we, of course, hear it de novo…