Harper v. Adametz

The plaintiff, a member of the faculty of Tale Law School, is seeking to impose a trust upon sixty-three acres of woodland in Haddam that were originally part of an eighty-acre farm that was owned by William Tesar. The other seventeen acres are owned by the plaintiff, who purchased them for $6000 through the defendant Jere Adametz, a real estate agent with whom the entire farm had been listed for sale by Joseph B. Tesar, son and conservator of William. Title to the sixty-three acres is in the name of Walter Adametz, son of Jere. He acquired title through sharp practice of his father without…