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DUCKETT v. PAYNE

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279 S.C. 94 (1983)

302 S.E.2d 342

Carse E. DUCKETT, a person non compos mentis, by his Guardian ad Litem, Clarence DUCKETT, Respondent, v. Mary M. PAYNE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

April 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William N. Epps, Jr., Steven M. Krause and Carey B. Murphy, of Epps & Krause, Anderson, for appellant.

Tom Bruce, Greenville, for respondent.

April 20, 1983.

HARWELL, Justice:

Respondent initiated this action through his Guardian ad Litem to set aside a deed conveying property from himself to appellant. The trial court, sitting without a jury, found that the grantor was mentally incompetent at the time he executed the deed. Consequently, the court set aside the deed. We affirm.

Carse Duckett, an elderly widower in his eighties, has six emancipated...

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