Porter v. Porter
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Richmond. Decided at Wytheville. Appeal from decree of circuit court of Fauquier county, rendered January 11th, 1890, in the chancery cause wherein Mary Porter’s heirs were complainants and Mary Ann Kirkman and others were defendants. The decree being adverse to the complainants, they appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
The original bill was filed in August, 1888, to obtain a decree-setting aside and vacating a deed executed on the 30th day of September, 1882, by Mary Porter, to her niece, Mary Ann Kirkman, on the alleged ground that the grantor, the said Mary Porter, was subjected to undue influence by the grantee, the said Mary Ann Kirkman ; and, furthermore, that she -was not compos mentis at the time of the execution of the said deed.
The amended bill alleges no new matter, and only makes new additional parties defendant.
The appellee, Mary Ann Kirkman, in her answer, denies all the material allegations of…
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