Solon v. Lichtenstein

Plaintiff brought this action to establish a constructive trust in certain personal property which defendant held in joint tenancy with her father, Eugene Parisek, now deceased. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence, the trial court granted defendant’s motion for a nonsuit, and plaintiff appeals from the ensuing judgment. She contends that such ruling violates the settled principle that the trial court should deny a motion for nonsuit “if there is . . . any substantial evidence, which, with the aid of all legitimate inferences favorable to the plaintiff, tends to establish the aver- meats of…