Price v. Bassett
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, to set aside a conveyance of an undivided third of certain real estate in New Bedford, alleged to have been obtained by the defendant Thomas Bassett from the defendant Keziah R. Price by means of fraud, undue influence, and misrepresentations, and by a conspiracy between him and Keziah and the defendant Orville Bassett, to deprive the plaintiff of his reversionary interest in the same.
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Bill in equity, to set aside a conveyance of an undivided third of certain real estate in New Bedford, alleged to have been obtained by the defendant Thomas Bassett from the defendant Keziah R. Price by means of fraud, undue influence, and misrepresentations, and by a conspiracy between him and Keziah and the defendant Orville Bassett, to deprive the plaintiff of his reversionary interest in the same. Hearing before Morton, J., who ordered the bill to be dismissed with costs, and, at the request of the plaintiff and with the consent of the defendants, reported the case to the full court. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The transaction which the plaintiff contends gives him a right to relief in equity was this. Abbie C. Bassett, who died in the year 1888, owning one undivided third of lands in New Bedford, gave by her will all her estate to the defendant Keziah R. Price, “ for her entire use and benefit so long as she shall live, and with permission to sell and use the same, or any part of it, if she shall need it for her comfortable support .and maintenance,” with a devise over at her death of the whole property, or such part of it as remains, to the plaintiff in fee, if then living. On July 20, 1892, Mrs.…
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