Boteler v. Plugge

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellants were plaintiffs below. They allege that they are the next of kin and devisees of Alfred G. Gross, deceased; that on April 30, 1914, decedent was the owner of an undivided one-half interest in a part of lots 66 and 67, Land Records of the District of Columbia, and on that day he executed and delivered two certain deeds of conveyance purporting to convey the same in-fee to August H. Plugge and Frederick W. Plugge; that the decedent was then mentally incapable of executing such deeds, and was induced to sign them by the fraud and undue influence of the…