Diamond v. Talbot’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““ I have read with interest that portion of the learned brief of plaintiff’s counsel, which is based upon the fine reasoning of Judge Cardozo in Sinclair v. Purdy ( 235 N. Y. 245 ). I do not think, however, there is any evidence here of a promise by the defendant wife to convey the property to her husband, or of such an abuse of her confidential relation with him as would lead, without a writing, to the implication of a trust in favor of the defendant Frank Talbot, of the real estate in question.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schmitz v. Schmitz