05 May Graham v. Wells

             Cathleen Graham was barely thirty years of age when, in the year 2003, she received approximately $4 million as a result of the loss of her entire family in deaths over the previous two years.  Her mother had died when a re-emerged cancer led to a cardiac arrest from which Ms. Graham was unable to save her with CPR.  A motor vehicle accident took Ms. Graham’s brother, her only sibling, eight weeks later.  Ms. Graham then lost her father, first to a severe depression, and then irrevocably when he hanged himself in the basement of the family home.  Ms. Graham found him hanging, cut him down, and administered CPR in an effort to bring him back to life, but it was too late.  It is no surprise that Ms. Graham had a complex and distinctive attitude towards the money that came to her with these terrible losses....