Ambassador College v. Geotzke

In February 1975, Madeline Hopkins Shaffer executed a deed and real estate trust agreement. This deed and trust agreement provided that upon her death title to her home would pass to Joseph Pope and Willard McMillan as trustees for Ambassador College. Mrs. Shaffer died in June 1978. The deed and trust agreement were recorded in July 1978. Shortly thereafter, Pope and McMillan quitclaimed their interest in the property to Ambassador College. Sally Geotzke, the daughter and sole heir of Mrs. Shaffer, then brought suit against Ambassador College and the two trustees in the Superior Court of Ben Hill County, Georgia. She sought the cancellation of the deed on the grounds, inter alia, of the mental incapacity of Mrs. Shaffer, undue influence, and fraudulent misrepresentation.