Legal Opinion
Adams v. Whitmore
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 23, 1923PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is a suit in equity by the heirs at law
of Isaiah M. Adams to set aside a deed by him to the defend*66ant dated on the twenty-first day of October, 1919. The case has been referred to a master under a rule requiring hi-m to find the facts without reporting the evidence. The findings of fact made by the master must be accepted as true. Those material findings are that at the time the deed was executed Isaiah M. Adams was more than eighty years of age, infirm and blind, weakened mentally and living alone. He had known the defendant and her husband for a period of years and had been in the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Duffy v. Treasurer & Receiver GeneralMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
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3Cited by18 opinions
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