Malone v. Spangler

WASSERSTROM, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Blanche A. Malone sues to enforce an alleged contract by Clarence Robert Spangler, deceased, to devise to her his house and the contents.1 The trial court granted a decree of specific performance, and the Administrator of Spangler’s estate appeals. We affirm.

In 1969, Spangler was a 61 year old widower who lived in his own home in Moberly, Mississippi, with his retarded adult daughter. He suffered from multiple disabilities including extremely limited vision, emphysema, obstructive lung disease, severe atrophic proctitis which occasioned rectal bleeding,…