Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 26, 2012PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The petitioner, Barbara C. Johnson, appeals from a judgment of a single justice of this court denying her petition for certiorari pursuant to G. L. c. 249, § 4. We affirm.
The petitioner, her son, and her daughter-in-law, have been involved in ongoing litigation concerning a house in Andover that was owned by the son and daughter-in-law. The petitioner claimed in the Superior Court that she and her son had entered into an oral agreement granting her a life estate in the property and that she, in turn, created and funded a certain trust naming herself as the beneficiary and her son as the…
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