Donnelly v. Rees

SMITH, C.—

Appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff and from an order denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial. The plaintiff is the daughter and sole heir of Patrick Kean, and brings this suit to set aside, as fraudulently obtained, a deed made by her father to the defendant—of date November 15, 1897. The land conveyed was an undivided half of certain mines owned by the former, and, it is found, was of the value of ten thousand dollars. The material questions in the ease are presented by the second finding of the court, which is-as follows:—

“That on the fifteenth day of November, 1897,…