Girty v. Standard Oil Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Caroline E. Girty, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 8th day of May, 1895, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term dismissing the complaint upon the merits, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal the decision upon which said judgment was founded.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
In the month of March, 1883, the plaintiff in this action, then upwards of sixty years of age, joined with her husband, George W. Girty, in the execution of a deed whereby there was conveyed to the Standard Oil Company of New York a house and lots in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, which property stood in the name of the plaintiff. The present suit (which was not commenced until September, 1894) is brought to set aside that conveyance, on the ground that the plaintiff was induced to sign the deed by duress, exercised upon her by her husband, acting as the agent of the…
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