Hughes v. Grandy

Appeal by defendant from a judgment in favor of plaintiff administrator in an action to recover certain real property transferred to defendant in her lifetime by plaintiff’s intestate. The action was originally brought by the guardian of the person and estate of Hannah Elinor Stewart, an incompetent person. Upon the death of Mrs. Stewart plaintiff administrator was substituted.

The complaint contains three causes of action. The first alleged that Hannah Elinor Stewart was mentally incompetent to make a deed of her property at the time of the conveyance to defendant, and “by reason of old age,…