GRIFFIN SMITH, Chief Justice.
Sarah Kelley, a Negress 70 years of age, signed and acknowledged a deed to real property and one of the grantees received it in her presence. The Chancellor found that the grantor's acts were induced by unreasonable importunities of stepchildren who would profit by the conveyance. Sarah suffered from advanced cancer; and, as the Court found, she was in excruciating pain when spokesmen for the grantees "worried her" into signing.
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