Delap v. Leonard
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Elizabeth C. Delap, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the respondent, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Elngs on the 11th day of February, 1919, dismissing the complaint on the merits upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Kings County Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
This action was brought to correct and reform a deed of real property in which it appears plaintiff sought to con*88vey to her stepdaughter, the defendant Estelle Delap Leonard, the undivided one-half of the four parcels of real property mentioned in the complaint.
The property was conveyed to plaintiff by her husband shortly before his death. He possessed no other property. Sometime after her husband’s death, with the purpose of correcting what she deemed to be an oversight on the part of her husband in failing to provide for his daughter, who was nine years of age and in delicate…
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