Hoffman v. Rickell

In the year 1945 the appellee, then a man of 74 years of age, was living with his wife in his house near Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. Helen M. Hoffman, his only daughter, and her husband, J. Thomas Hoffman, the appellants, were living in the City of Baltimore in property on North Calvert Street, which they owned. On May 9, 1945, the appellee and the appellants entered into an agreement setting out that the appellee, having arrived at an advanced age and being physically incapacitated, decided to live with the appellants in their home where he could be comfortable, and to that end he…