Leavenworth v. Michigan National Bank

Defendants, as co-executors of the estate of Allmond G. Bowen, appeal from the judgment in Kent County Circuit Court which ordered the estate to pay plaintiff $70,000 in insurance proceeds and to deed a certain property to plaintiff with the outstanding mortgage paid by the estate. The trial judge, sitting as trier of fact and law, held that the decedent had contractually promised the insurance proceeds and realty to plaintiff in return for services rendered by the plaintiff in the nearly ten years that they lived together. The testimony was undisputed on these points.

Defendant argues that…