Bliss v. Winters
New York Supreme Court
Motion to strike out part of answer.
1Opinion of the CourtGildersleeve, J.
The complaint alleges that the defendant Winters, being a man of thirty-five years of age and the legal adviser of one Annie Marie Hunt, a woman of over seventy years of age, of unsound mind and feeble physical health, and “ contriving and intending, by taking advantage of her weakness, physical infirmities and credulity, to get from her all of her property, induced or persuaded her to many him, and then, as her counselor and legal adviser, by fraud and undue influence, and knowing her to be of unsound mind and without sufficient capacity to make a will,” induced her to make a will leaving to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- New York Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. IvesNew York Supreme Court · 1895
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