Reder v. Kuss

This is an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court ordering the respondents, who are the heirs at law of one Anna Kuss, to convey to the petitioner all of their right, title and interest in certain real estate which stood in the names of the petitioner and Anna Kuss “as tenants in common.” The trial judge made a “voluntary report of material facts,” and the evidence is reported..The petitioner testified through an interpreter that he spoke Polish and “ [n]ot much” English. There was evidence that the petitioner was seventy-six years old and in 1914 he had come to the United States from…