McKnatt v. McKnatt
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Bill to Set Aside a Conveyance. The complainants, the heirs at law and beneficiaries under the will of Ebenezer McKnatt, seek to invalidate a deed made by him on May 1, 1913, to Charles W. McKnatt, for the consideration of one dollar, conveying a farm near Harrington, worth about five thousand dollars.
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Bill to Set Aside a Conveyance. The complainants, the heirs at law and beneficiaries under the will of Ebenezer McKnatt, seek to invalidate a deed made by him on May 1, 1913, to Charles W. McKnatt, for the consideration of one dollar, conveying a farm near Harrington, worth about five thousand dollars. The grantor, a bachelor about eighty-one years of age, being no longer able to farm his land, had boarded in Harrington at several places, including the home of his nephew, Joshua Reynolds. On December 30, 1912, while living there he made a will, which was after his death duly probated. By it…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor
(after stating the facts as above). From the foregoing statement of facts, which I have prepared *397in order to state as fairly as I could the important facts, the question for solution, stating it most favorably for the defendants, the grantee in the deed, is this: A very aged, sick and very infirm, homeless bachelor, dependent for many physical attentions on the nurse in whose home he lived, having made a deed by which he conveyed practically all his property to the nurse, not a kinsman, for a consideration not stated in the deed, viz., the caring for the grantor for the rest of…
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