GARFIELD v. GARFIELD


327 Mass. 529 (1951)

99 N.E.2d 645

HENRY GARFIELD & another vs. ETHEL L. GARFIELD & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

June 28, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M.J. Murphy & H.C. Gill, for the plaintiffs.

W.J. Holbrook, for the defendant Garfield.

P.M. Swift, for the defendant Buckley.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, RONAN, SPALDING, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

By this bill brought in 1947 the plaintiffs seek to establish a trust in and to compel a conveyance to themselves of an undivided one-quarter interest in certain land in West Dennis of which they claim to have been deprived due to the alleged fraud in 1903 of Lyman F. Garfield, deceased father of the defendant Helen P. Buckley and husband of the defendant Ethel L. Garfield. The defendants severally filed answers...

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