In Re Estate of Crawford

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

This was an action by the widow (joined by the Kansas administrator of the estate of Joseph B. Crawford, deceased, as a nominal plaintiff) to set aside a deed executed by decedent a few weeks prior to his death. The defendant grantees are the adult children of deceased by a former marriage.

Briefly summarized, it may be said the second amended petition alleged substantially the following:

That on or about January 10, 1953, plaintiff’s stepchildren, in furtherance of a fraudulent scheme and conspiracy to defeat her marital rights in property…