Flannery v. Woolverton

This appeal is from a decree of the superior court of Cook county ordering 'the specific performance of an oral contract between appellee, J ohn L. Flannery, and his father, and directing that a valuable residence property at 3528 Pine Grove avenue, Chicago, be conveyed by appellant the Northern Trust Company to appellee.

John L. Flannery, Sr., died testate December 8, 1920, leaving as his only heirs, appellee, his son, and Florence Flannery Woolverton, his daughter, one of the appellants. By his will, dated November 24, 1920, he made several specific bequests and then devised all the…