Canute v. Minor
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
The complaint and bill of particulars read . together (Harmon v. Peats Co., 243 N. Y. 473, 476) assert a cause of action for specific performance of an oral contract to make a will of real estate. Plaintiff, who is the daughter of defendants’ testatrix, claims, and the trial court has found, that on or about December 20, 1913, decedent entered into an oral contract with her by which, in consideration of plaintiff’s giving up her business (which took her from the city of Rochester), remaining in the city of Rochester, living with decedent and helping her as she from .time to time might…
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