Quinton v. Kendall

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action between a daughter and her mother in which the plaintiff sought to enforce an alleged oral agreement whereby the mother many years ago bound herself to hold the entire estate of her husband, devised to her by his will, as a life estate in her own behalf, and to devise that estate to plaintiff and her sister, daughters of defendant and her deceased husband.

The petition alleged that in 1899 defendant’s husband, L. B. Kendall, died testate, devising all his property in fee to his two daughters, the plaintiff, Mary K. Quinton,…