O'Brien v. O'Brien

The substance of plaintiff’s claim, as it developed on the trial and as it has been treated in briefs filed by counsel, is this: that defendant falsely represented to plaintiff that he was the lawfully wedded husband of plaintiff’s late deceased mother and that plaintiff, in reliance upon the truth of such representations, consented to defendant’s appointment as administrator on his mother’s estate and thereafter became a party to an agreement of distribution with defendant of the property owned by said estate, as a result of which defendant received a portion thereof substantially…