Catone v. Belitsky

The present case concerns the issue of whether the defendant, Michael Belitsky, who has always lived in the home his father owned, has a sufficient claim of a cognizable possessory interest so as to require the recent purchaser, Angelo Catone, the plaintiff, to institute a separate legal action to quiet title.

The circumstances present a heartbreaking scenario, probably played out all too frequently in modem times of increasingly expensive long-term health care. The defendant credibly relates that his father always intended that he would ultimately have the residence for his own, given that…