Court Opinion

ID: 9561574
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 18:12:17.39726+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:13:57.886549
License: Public Domain

Gordon, J.,
Dissenting.
While sui juris Miss Creasy instructed her counsel to prepare a deed, to be executed and delivered by her attorney-in-fact, conveying a parcel of real estate to Mrs. Henderson as a gift. The Commissioner so found, and both the trial court and this Court accept that finding.
This Court cancels the conveyance because of fraud. And it imputes fraud because the attorney-in-fact, having on advice of Miss Creasy’s counsel cast the transaction in the form of a sale rather than a gift, conveyed the property for an inadequate consideration.
Where no consideration is intended I cannot impute fraud, actual or constructive, from an inadequate consideration. So I must dissent.