Smith v. Davis

This is an appeal by defendant-appellant, Margaret Falls Smith, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County. That court ordered the defendant to pay $6,524.82 into the court for distribution to plaintiff-appellees, Judith Jones Davis, et al.

The appellees initiated this lawsuit on April 7, 1975, filing a one-count complaint which alleged that defendant defrauded her own mother by inducing her to convey her house to defendant. The complaint further alleged that defendant represented to her mother that the house (or proceeds from its sale) was needed in order to maintain the mother…