Silver v. Benson

Robert C. Benson, eighty-three years of age, his wife and daughter, Kathryn Benson, were the owners of a tract of land laid out in building lots, which they agreed to sell to Twin Development Company, Inc., for a total price of $28,300. They received down payments totalling $2,500, and at the settlement on May 13, 1959, received two checks from Thomas P. Bur-gee, President of the purchasing corporation, drawn on his personal account, one in the sum of $18,300, and the other in a sum to cover an adjustment of rent and taxes. They executed and delivered a deed to the property, which was…