Hill v. Hairston

This is an appeal from a decree cancelling a deed executed by Ella Turner on May 31, 1935, by which she conveyed a small farm in Washtenaw county to defendant, Rev. Samuel L. Hairston. Ella Turner died in the city of Detroit on July 15, 1940, at the age of 70. Plaintiff is her nephew and the administrator of her estate. Defendant Hairston is the head of a church known as St. Paul’s Universalist Spiritualist Association of Christ, which he organized in 1929. Prior to 1930, the deceased was a member of the Second Baptist Church in Detroit. She gave up this membership to join defendant’s church.

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