Mills v. Glenn

The appeal in this case is from a decree setting aside a deed because procured by fraud or undue influence. The grantor, Kate Glenn, was a colored woman, seventy-one years of age, crippled and infirm, so that she was much disabled, walked with some difficulty, was compelled to go upstairs on her hands and knees and to come down backwards, and was physically much dependent upon the aid of others. There was some testimony offered to show mental ineompeteney, but in our opinion it fails to establish it. The woman appears to have been illiterate, or, at least, she depended upon others to write…