Corbin v. Howard

This action was instituted to obtain a decree canceling a deed given to defendant Emma E. Howard by Frank II. Corbin, of whose estate the plaintiff is the residuary legatee. The ground of cancellation insisted on was that the grantor, to the grantee’s knowledge, was mentally incompetent to contract, and that the grantee fraudulently took advantage of the weak mind of the grantor. Frank II. Corbin, by deed executed the twenty-eighth day of July, 1916, conveyed to Emma E. Howard certain real property situated in the county of Tulare. Thereafter the said Howard conveyed said land to defendant…