Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit February 1, 1951, 10716_1 (Slyder v. District of Columbia)

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.