Archer v. Dow

The plaintiff, Ida E. Archer, appeals a Superior Court (Dunn, J.) order denying her petition to set aside the conveyance of her house and land to the defendant, Phyllis Dow. The plaintiff claims that the defendant abused a confidential relationship with the plaintiff and thereby unduly influenced the plaintiff in order to obtain a deed conveying real property to the defendant. We affirm the decision denying the plaintiff’s petition to set aside the conveyance, but remand for a modification of the equitable relief.

In September of 1982, the plaintiff, an eighty-two-year-old widow, filed a…