Webb v. Heddleson

BARRETT, Commissioner.

On June 19, 1954, Claude H. Heddleson, Sr., by warranty deed, gave a part of his farm in Cass County to his only child, Claude H. Heddleson, Jr., and on August 18, 1954, he deeded the entire farm to his son and his then daughter-in-law as tenants' by the entirety. This is a suit by one of the grantor’s sisters, Marguerite Webb, the devisee of the farm under his will executed January 9, 1949, to cancel the deeds on the grounds of lack of mental capacity to execute and undue influence by the son. The trial court denied cancellation and upon the sister’s appeal it is urged…