Stringfellow v. Hanson
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the Third District Court, Salt Lake County.— Hon. W. O. Hall, Judge. Action to set aside certain, conveyances- of real estate made by deceased during bis lifetime to- tbe defendant. Tbe opinion states tbe facts. Erom a decree in favor of tbe plaintiff, tbe defendant appealed.
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Appeal from the Third District Court, Salt Lake County.— Hon. W. O. Hall, Judge. Action to set aside certain, conveyances- of real estate made by deceased during bis lifetime to- tbe defendant. Tbe opinion states tbe facts. Erom a decree in favor of tbe plaintiff, tbe defendant appealed. Where tbe relation between tbe parties is sucb that one party would naturally exercise influence over tbe conduct of tbe other, a court of equity will interfere to set aside tbe instrument A conveyance obtained by children from their father will not be sanctioned by a court of equity if it ap • pears to have…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCARTY, J.
It appears from the record that plaintiff John Peter Johnson and Emma Hanson, defendant, were father and daughter; that they were foreigners (Scandinavians) ; that Johnson came to this country in 1866, and his daughter, Emma Hanson, in 1875, and both lived in Salt Late county, Utah, until the death of the former, which occurred since the trial of this case; that Emma Hanson, after she came to this country, with the exception of a few years,, lived with her parents up to the time of the death of her mother in 1891; that for the two years next preceding her mother’s death she lived with,…
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