Smith v. Kopitzki

This is a writ of error prosecuted to reverse a decree of the circuit court of Woodford county setting aside two deeds on account of the mental incapacity of the grantor and the undue influence of the grantee. Jacob Patterson, the grantor, died on July 13, 1908, at the age of ninety-two years. His heirs were his daughter, Rebecca Kopitzki, the plaintiff in error, and his grandchildren, the defendants in error, who are the children of a daughter and a son who died in his lifetime. The other plaintiff in error is Joseph Kopitzki, Rebecca’s husband. The deeds were made to Rebecca Kopitzki, one…