Rhodes v. Cookson

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff Jesse Rhodes appeals from a judgment entered in favor of defendants Norman and Jeanine Cookson after a non-jury trial in Superior Court (Waldo County). On March 22, 1982, Mr. Rhodes, then 91 years of age, and his wife, Hope, then *11683, conveyed their home in Belfast, subject to a reserved life estate, to their next door neighbors, the Cooksons, in exchange for the Cookson’s contractual commitment to “assist [the Rhodeses] in the normal daily necessities.” A year and a half later Mrs. Rhodes died, and in December 1983 Mr. Rhodes brought this present action seeking…