Gellert v. Eginton

OPINION

SCHELLHAS, Judge.

Appellant argues that the district court clearly erred by finding that the decedent was without capacity when she executed a gift deed of St. Paul real estate to defendant. Appellant also challenges the district court’s grant of respondents’ motion for attorney fees, contending that the district court’s reliance on Minn.Stat. § 524.3-720 was improper. We affirm.

FACTS

After Marie M. Moldenhauer, the decedent, broke her hip at her St. Paul residence, she moved into Maplewood’s Good Samaritan Nursing Home. In February 2001, the same month of her arrival, nursing-home…