Meyer v. Barde

The court found that the sole consideration for the surrender of -the house and lot and insurance policy by Mrs. Levitt was the assurance by Latourette that the delivery of the deed and assignment would mark the end of the prosecution of Levitt, and that these transfers were not made by her freely and voluntarily, but were induced by -fear and apprehension upon her part of the consequences that would result to her husband upon the prosecu*209tion of the criminal charge then pending, and that the application of the amount agreed upon as the consideration for said transfers in partial payment of…