Ford v. Gale
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, John Ford and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Chautauqua on the 19th day of September, 1910, upon the report of a referee dismissing the complaint upon the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
Lambert, J.:
The action is to set aside a deed from Martha Ford, deceased, to the respondent Electa Gale. It is claimed that the deed is the result of undue influence practiced upon the grantor and that she was mentally incompetent to make or deliver the same. The learned referee has found for the validity of the conveyance.
The deed in question was executed August 7, 1905, and was recorded June 25, 1907, nearly two years later. The grantor, Martha Ford, died, unmarried and intestate, February 23,1908, and she was seventy-eight years of age at the time of her death. She was survived by the…
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