Booher v. Brown

Peter Callan and Mary E. Callan, his wife, in their lifetime, owned, as tenants by the entirety, a house and lot in a suburban district in the city of Portland. Mr. Callan died on May 19,1940. The plaintiff herein, Marian Booher, was Peter Callan’s sister. She is a widow, aged sixty-four years, and resides at St. Paul, Minnesota. Mrs. Callan died intestate in November, 1941. The defendant, Catherine Brown, was Mrs. Callan’s sister, is her sole heir at law, and is also administratrix of her estate.

The complaint alleged that Mrs. Callan, about June 15, 1941, being in poor health, entered into a…