Case ID: mich_137/html/0114-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Hooker, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

OLK v. SHUGARS.
    Conveyances — Undue Influence — Breach of Conditions.
    A decree setting aside a deed for breach of condition and as having been obtained through undue influence, held to have been justified by the evidence.
    Appeal from Van Buren; Carr, J.
    Submitted April 13, 1904.
    (Docket No. 51.)
    Decided July 7, 1904.
    Bill by Mathias Oik against Ervin B. Shugars and Frances E. Shugars to set aside a deed. From a decree for complainant, defendants appeal.
    Affirmed.
    
      Thomas J. Cavanaugh, for complainant.
    
      Barnard & Lewis, for defendants.
   Hooker, J.

The complainant, a man of advanced age, deeded his property to the defendants, upon an undertaking on their part to support him. They resided on the place at the time. When the trouble arose between them, they complied with his demand to leave the place. Thereupon the complainant filed the bill to set aside the deed, upon the ground of undue influence and other grounds.

It is not clear that the defendants are alone to blame for the disagreement, but we are of. the opinion that they did not live up to the spirit, if they did to the letter, of their promise, and we agree with the circuit judge that they solicited this conveyance persistently and unseasonably. He saw and heard the witnesses, and we think the case one which justifies his conclusions.

The decree is affirmed, with costs.

Moore, C. J., Carpenter and Montgomery, JJ., concurred. Grant, J., did not sit.