Slorby v. Johnson

NEUMANN, Justice.

Peter A. and Karen J. Johnson appeal from a judgment rescinding a contract for deed, which conveyed 640 acres of farmland from Melvin Steffens to the Johnsons, on the ground of Steffens’ mental incapacity at the time the contract for deed was executed. We affirm.

We view the evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court’s findings. See Chaussee v. Thiel, 520 N.W.2d 789, 791 (N.D.1994). Steffens was born on July 25, 1898. His wife died in 1962. The couple had no children, and Steffens’ only living relatives are a sister, two sisters-in-law, and five nephews, with whom…