Hoseason v. Keegen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by the executrix and sole devisee under the will of Mary McLaughlin against the widower of said Mary’s deceased daughter, to set aside a conveyance of certain real estate from said Mary to the defendant, alleged to have been procured by him through undue influence and persuasion and not to have been the free act of said Mary, praying the court to order a conveyance of the property to the plaintiff, filed January 9, 1900. The defendant set up a plea of res…
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Bill in equity by the executrix and sole devisee under the will of Mary McLaughlin against the widower of said Mary’s deceased daughter, to set aside a conveyance of certain real estate from said Mary to the defendant, alleged to have been procured by him through undue influence and persuasion and not to have been the free act of said Mary, praying the court to order a conveyance of the property to the plaintiff, filed January 9, 1900. The defendant set up a plea of res judicata, alleging that Mary McLaughlin, the plaintiff’s testatrix, on May 12, 1897, filed a bill, which after the death of…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, C. J.
This is a bill in equity seeking to compel a conveyance of certain land from the defendant to the plaintiff on the ground that the defendant obtained the conveyance to himself without consideration by undue influence exercised over one Mary McLaughlin, the owner, of whom the plaintiff is the executrix and residuary devisee. The defendant pleads a former adjudication upon a bill, brought by Mary McLaughlin and carried on by the present plaintiff after Mary McLaughlin’s death, in which it was alleged that the defendant obtained the same *250deed by a fraudulent statement that it did not amount to…
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