Ward v. Hall

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of plaintiff, entered July 1, 1971 in Rensselaer County, upon a decision of the court at a Trial Term, without a jury. Plaintiff, a 51-year-old woman afflicted with Parkinson’s entered the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown on June 6, 1970 having taken an overdose of medication. Four days later she was transferred to the hospital’s psychiatric ward because of her depressed and despondent state. On June 19, 1970, while hospitalized, plaintiff deeded to defendant, her sister, real property consisting of her house and trailer park.…