Boulanger v. Hetzel
Boulanger v. Hetzel
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The bill is brought by certain heirs-at-law of Marianne Obry, deceased, and seeks to have set aside two deeds made by her in her lifetime to the defendants, Sophie and Frank Hetzel, as having been procured by fraud and undue influence. The sole ground on which the demurrer, which was overruled below, is rested in this court is that “the court of chancery is without jurisdiction to grant the relief prayed for in the bill.” Counsel very properly does not deny that if the bill presented simply the case set forth above, the court of chancery would have full jurisdiction, but maintains that because the bill alleges, in addition, that after the deeds attacked were made, the decedent, through fraud, undue influence, and duress of said defendants, and while mentally incompetent to do so, made a paper-writing purporting to be a will, devising to the said defendants the same property de
The order brought up will be affirmed, with costs.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Robert Boulanger, complainants-respondents v. Sophie Hetzel
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- Published