Pattison v. Pattison

Plaintiff, a man of seventy-four years, recovered a judgment against his sister, aged seventy-seven, declaring a deed executed by him to her to be null and void and directing that he be reinvested with title to the property. The Official Referee, who was to hear and determine, found that plaintiff had conveyed the property to his sister in 1943, upon her oral promise to deed it back to him when a claim against plaintiff had been satisfied. The Referee further found that the claim had been satisfied in 1948, that plaintiff had demanded the reconveyance of the property and that defendant had…