Gilliland v. Carpenter

This case is before us pursuant to an appeal by the appellants, defendants below, to an order entered by the Honorable Charles E. McCarty, Circuit Judge of Roane County. This order set aside two deeds on the basis that the grantor was mentally impaired, that the appellants, who were grantees in such deeds, took advantage of a situation of trust with the grant- or, and that the purchase price paid for the property was so inadequate as to shock the conscience of a reasonable person. The appellants assert that the court committed error by granting the appellee’s motion for judgment…