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SLYDER v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 10716.

187 F.2d 217 (1951)

SLYDER v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 1, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Godfrey L. Munter, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Harry L. Walker, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Vernon E. West, Corporation Counsel, Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and George F. Lynch, Asst. Corporation Counsel, all of Washington D. C., were on the brief, for respondent.

Before EDGERTON, PROCTOR, and BAZELON, Circuit Judges.

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, who was ill, orally agreed with Josephine Mathy that if she would give up her boarding-house business and take care of him he would give her the money to buy a house, title would be taken in her name, and when either died the house would belong to the other. The parties carried out their agreement. He paid for a house and title was taken in her name. She willed him her residuary estate, including the house, and cared for him until...

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