Dellefield v. Blockdel Realty Co.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

In this action plaintiff, the widow of Albert S. Dellefield, suing individually and as administratrix of her husband’s estate, has recovered a generous verdict and judgment — over a quarter of a million dollars all told — for a deceit which rests in final analysis upon her word against the word of the two individual defendants. The circumstances call for close scrutiny of the extensive record before us. From our study we are convinced that several important errors occurred which make unsupportable the verdict obtained from the jury and the judgment thereupon rendered.

Plain…