Lake v. Webber

This action was brought to cancel a deed and bill of sale given by Edwin Lake to Percy J. Webber. The complaint alleges in substance that Edwin Lake at the time of signing the instruments was incompetent mentally and that the defendant Percy J. Webber and Ethel Webber, his wife, induced him to execute the instruments by undue influence.

The answers of all the defendants save Rex Flint and his wife, Freda Flint, consisted of a general denial together with affirmative allegations that Edwin Lake and his wife Pearl, prior to her death, considered and treated Percy J. Webber as their son and…