Legal Opinion
Brenda Gordon v. Sherry Wall
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided June 6, 2019No. 2018-CA-00531-SCTPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ISHEE, JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:
¶1. The Lafayette County Chancery Court set aside an inter vivos gift of about forty acres fronting Highway 6 near Oxford. The grantor was Mary Saunders Waller, a ninety-year-old woman who was hard of hearing and legally blind; the grantees were Waller's daughter and son-in-law, Brenda and Craig Gordon. The Gordons lived near Waller and had been her caretakers for many years. A conservator was appointed shortly before Waller's death, and she filed a petition in the probate action to set aside the deed to the Gordons. The Gordons admitted to a confidential…
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