Moran v. Beson
| Decision Date | 13 November 1923 |
| Docket Number | No. 70.,70. |
| Citation | 195 N.W. 688,225 Mich. 144 |
| Parties | MORAN v. BESON et al. |
| Court | Michigan Supreme Court |
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Appeal from Circuit Court, St. Clair County, in Chancery; Tappan, Judge.
Action by Laura C. Moran, administratrix of the estate of James N. Phillips, deceased, against Everett Beson and another. Decree for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. Affirmed.
Argued before WIEST, C. J., and FELLOWS, McDONALD, CLARK, BIRD, SHARPE, MOORE, and STEERE, JJ. Shirley Stewart, of Port Huron (John W. Breining, of Marine City, of counsel), for appellants.
Thomas Wellman, of Port Huron, for appellee.
This is an appeal from a decree setting aside a deed given by a father to his daughter and infant granddaughter.
James Nelson Phillips owned a place on the St. Clair river. His wife was dead, and his married daughter, Alice C. Beson, her husband and two childlren lived with him. Moved by affection for his daughter Alice and her daughter Dorothy, and desirous of arranging for his care and support during his declining years, and to have the personal attention of his daughter, on July 1, 1913, he executed a deed conveying his property to ‘Alice C. Beson and to Alice C. Beson as trustee for Dorothy Frances Beson, a minor,’ and received a life lease of the property executed by ‘Alice C. Beson for herself and for Dorothy Frances Beson, as trustee.’ The deed and lease made no mention of care and support of Mr. Phillips by his daughter, although such was the consideration for the deed.
Alice C. Beson died March 11, 1918, and her death disrupted the arrangement for the care and support of her father. After her death Mr. Phillips boarded out for a short time, and them another daughter moved in to care for him. He filed the bill herein to have the deed set aside for failure of consideration and the property restored to him. Before the hearing he died, and the suit was revived in the name of the administrator of his estate. The circuit judge was clearly right in setting the deed aside. Lockwood v. Lockwood, 124 Mich. 627, 83 N. W. 613;Coe v. Dickerson, 129 Mich. 61, 87 N. W. 1028;Lewandowski v. Nadolny, 214 Mich. 350, 183 N. W. 85.
Defendants admit that the death of a grantee under circumstances like here disclosed may constitute a failure of consideration, but contend that right of rescission for such cause may be waived and was waived in this case. We do not hold that the death of the grantee in such a deed necessarily constitutes a failure of consideration...
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