The opinion of the court was delivered by
This action is brought by James A. White,, as the guardian of Joseph T. Nickerson, to cancel and set-aside certain conveyances made by said Nickerson to appellants John P. Johnson and Andrew R. Johnson, and!, appellant Peter Nelson is joined as a defendant in the action as an alleged grantee of the said Andrew R. Johnson, charged with notice of plaintiff's equities. The court be
This case presents anew the old story of trouble arising from this character of contracts; and while courts of equity should be quick to respond to the appeals of the old, the infirm and the incompetent for protection against the wiles of designing men who seek by overreaching methods to profit and thrive at the expense of waning intellects and confiding old age, yet the investigation of such cases must
’■ But we cannot say so much for the innocence or good faith of the last transaction. As the lands in that locality Began to be valuable, the Johnsons evidently began to
Anders, O. J., and Stiles, Scott and Hoyt, JJ., concur.