Purdy v. Watts
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to secure the cancellation of a deed of real estate owned by the plaintiff’s intestate and alleged to have been secured by the defendant by means of coercion and undue influence, and for $25,000 damages, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Case, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, setting aside said deed, from which the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The defendant is a son of the plaintiff’s intestate, Sidney Watts. It was an admitted fact upon the trial that on the first day of March, 1911, the latter executed and delivered to the defendant the deed which it is sought to have cancelled, the only consideration for which was an agreement, contained therein, that the defendant would comfortably and properly support and maintain the grantor upon the premises during his natural life, and keep the premises in reasonable repair, pay the taxes, insurance on the buildings, interest on a mortgage which was upon the premises, and the water rates;…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Lockwood v. LockwoodSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
- Mooney v. MooneySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
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