Howland v. Day

Appellant brought this action, in his representative capacity, against Elizabeth M. Day, the Corporate Loan & Security Company, and a number of other defendants, subsequent purchasers, to cancel a deed given by appellant’s decedent on December 18, 1916. The grounds for annulling and cancelling the deed alleged were undue influence on the part of Elizabeth M. Day, inadequacy of consideration, and that the same was fraudulently obtained.- The complaint alleges that, at the time decedent executed and delivered the deed, he was an aged man, seventy-two years old, and for more than two years prior…