Clemons v. Clemons

This action, one to establish and enforce an alleged oral contract to adopt plaintiff as a child of Leon Clemons, deceased, and his then wife, and to recover a half interest in the estate of Leon H. Clemons, deceased, to which plaintiff would have succeeded had she been adopted as his child, was instituted by plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, against the defendants in error, hereinafter referred to as defendants.

Plaintiff in her position, in addition to the conventional averments therein, as the basis of her claim to a contract for her adoption, made the following…