Burmeister v. Russell

Plaintiff Elizabeth Burmeister is the guardian of Carl Fleischmann, a mental incompetent. Defendant Helene Fleischmann is Carl Fleischmann’s divorced wife, and defendant Mabel Russell was the grantee of land conveyed to her by the mental incompetent and thereafter conveyed by her to him and to defendant Helene Fleischmann as tenants by the entireties. Plaintiff filed a bill in equity to set aside the foregoing deeds, claiming that her ward was mentally incompetent at the time of their execution. The chancellor heard testimony from plaintiff, from the mental incompetent’s neighbors, a police…