Hershey v. Horton

This is a suit in equity to cancel two certain deeds conveying 160 acres of land in Chariton County, for mental incapacity of the grantor and undue influence practiced upon her by the grantee. The grantor was Amanda Hershey, deceased; the grantee is her daughter Olive Hershey Horton, the appellant. The petition also prayed cancellation of a third deed by which the appellant subsequently transferred about thirty-two acres of the land to her brother, the defendant James M. Hershey — with notice of the foregoing, it is alleged — and for partition. The circuit court found for the plaintiffs on…