Fikes v. Lee

This suit was instituted to cancel a deed on the grounds that the grantor lacked the necessary mental capacity and that the grantee, having knowledge of the grantor’s mental condition, exercised over persuasion, fraud, duress and undue influence. The trial court decreed a cancellation on the ground of lack of mental capacity, hence this appeal.

Background, facts. Henry Hamilton, a negro 86 years of age at the time he made the deed in question, held legal title to real property in North Little Rock described as Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8, Block 5, Foraker Grove Addition which he had owned for several…