Gilliam v. Schoen

This is a suit to cancel a deed of conveyance of real property by Elvira Schoen, a widow, (now deceased), in favor of Fred T. Schoen. The plaintiffs are three daughters and a grandson of the grantor. The defendants are the grantee, Fred T. Schoen, and his wife.

The complaint alleged that the grantor, at the time of signing the deed, was eighty-eight years old, and, by reason of her advanced age and of grievous illness with which she had been afflicted for some years, was weak, ailing and unsound of mind and body, and mentally incapable of transacting business or understanding her affairs. It…