Murphy v. Smith

This case involves the right of the plaintiff to the rents under a lease of real estate given by her father, John Smith, to third persons in 1919, and assigned under seal on May 1, 1920, by John Smith to the plaintiff, without consideration. The validity of the assignment is denied by the defendant, the widow of the plaintiff’s brother, who survived his father.

*94Smith handed the assignment to the plaintiff shortly after it was made, saying “You may need this sometime,” and the plaintiff has held it ever since. But Smith continued to collect and keep the rents, and to pay the expenses, until he…