Watson v. Holmes

This action is brought by the plaintiff, as executor of the will of Morton W. Rundel, deceased, to *50set aside certain transfers of personal property made by said Rundel in Ms lifetime to defendant Elizabeth A. Holmes, on the ground, that such transfers, which defendant alleges were gifts, were procured by fraud and undue influence.

Morton W. Rundel was a bachelor and had for many years conducted an art store in the city of Rochester, where he died on the 5th day of November, 1911, aged seventy-three years. He was not in active business at the time of his death, having retired in 1904. Mr.…