Hanson v. Lancaster

MR. JUSTICE ANGSTMAN:

This action was brought to cancel a deed to 120 acres of farm lands in Lake county alleged to have been given by plaintiff to defendant on May 20, 1949, through fraud and without the payment of any consideration. Defendant was then renting the land.

The fraud is alleged to have consisted of false and fraudulent representations by defendant that plaintiff would lose her property by the foreclosure of a mortgage held by Walter Stimson if she did not deed the property to him; that defendant in dealing with third parties is charged with falsely representing that he had paid…