Benedict v. Heirs, Representatives & Creditors of Dickens

The plaintiff brought this action to quiet the title to certain real estate in the town of New Fairfield, and the defendant Cassie Hunt, the plaintiff’s grantor, filed a cross-complaint seeking to have her deed of the property to the plaintiff set aside on the ground of fraud and misrepresentation. The court rendered judgment in her favor upon the cross-complaint and the plaintiff has appealed.

The following facts appear from the finding of the trial court: Cassie Hunt, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, is the only heir at law of her father, Thomas H. Conklin, who purchased the…