Chase v. Chase

In August, 1877, Joseph Freeborn was the owner of real estate, consisting of about four acres of land and a dwelling-house, in Middletown, where he then lived with his wife, both being elderly people, and the husband paralytic.

They had no children, and wished to have some one come to live with and care for them. To this end, after like efforts with others had failed", he proposed to the respondents, then living in Brooklyn, Conn., to give them a deed of the property, if they would go there to live and attend to him and his wife as long as either should live. The proposition was accepted, a…