Schneider v. Johnson

Action in equity to cancel and set aside two deeds purporting to convey to defendants described real estate in Scotland County.

Plaintiffs charged (1) that the deeds were null, void and of no effect for lack of consideration; (2) that the grantors were not mentally competent to execute the deeds; and (3) that the acts and conduct of the defendants in procuring and accepting the deeds constituted a fraud on the grantors. The trial court found that the deeds were made voluntarily without fraud, compulsion or any undue influence; and that the grantors therein were in their right minds at the time…