Chamberlain v. Preston

The complainant in a suit to compel her niece, the owner of land on which the aunt has built a bungalow, to convey the site and a surrounding portion of land to the aunt, appeals from a decree denying the right to relief and dismissing the bill.

There is an agreement of testimony, or lack of dispute, on these facts. The aunt, Miss Chamberlain, had for some years lived with a Mrs. Walsh, who died in 1932. Miss Chamberlain had two nieces, daughters of two sisters. She had saved about $3,000, and held it deposited in two substantially equal savings accounts, with each of the nieces named as…