Lovejoy

Lovejoy v. Hart

Caution
1916 Cal. App. LEXIS 115·30 Cal. App. 664·159 P. 170
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJune 5, 1916Civ. No. 1505.California3,491 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Chipman, J.

Plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of Ann La Point, deceased, brought the action to have two certain gifts of money made by deceased in her lifetime set aside and decreed invalid, null, and void.

The complaint is an elaborate statement of facts alleged on information and belief, in which is alleged a conspiracy entered into by defendants to induce the deceased to leave her husband, and representations are alleged to have been falsely and fraudulently made by defendants to deceased with the object of disrupting her marital relations with her husband and to arouse in her a sentiment of hatred toward and dislike of her husband, and that by reason thereof deceased was induced to leave her husband; that this fraudulent conspiracy had for its object the procurement from deceased the money she possessed, and that the gifts made to defendant Martha Hart by deceased were brought about through said conspiracy; that deceased was an old woman, feeble in mind and body and in poor health, and that her mind was perturbed and deranged thereby, “and that defendants poisoned the mind of deceased against her husband by representing that her husband would cheat her of her money”; that…

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