Gleason v. Ritchie

The plaintiff-respondent, a nonresident and a railroad employee, is the life tenant of income-producing real property in the city of Buffalo. In 1912, he entered into an agreement with his sister, the defendant-appellant, whereby she agreed that, without compensation, she would collect the rents, pay the taxes, maintain the property and pay for maintenance and repairs, and deposit the balance to respondent’s credit in his accounts in Buffalo savings banks and that she would continue to do this until the time of respondent’s retirement. She collected the rents and managed the property from…