Stevens v. Halstead
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John J. Stevens, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Orange on the 27th day of February, 1917, dismissing the complaint at the opening on a trial at the Orange Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Blackmar, J.:
The complaint alleged that the plaintiff was the only heir and next of kin of one Charles E. Stevens, who died intestate on November 23, 1916; that the defendant, a married woman forty-seven years of age, separated from her husband, lived with the said decedent, who was seventy years of age and physically and mentally infirm, ostensibly as his housekeeper but really as his mistress; that defendant, with intent to obtain the property of decedent by coercion, fraud and deceit, induced decedent to adopt her as his child, which he did on September 15, 1916; that she continued her…
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