Adams v. Honness
New York Supreme Court
ACTIOH" brought to enforce a paroi agreement alleged to have been made by Conrad Honness, the defendants’ intestate, to give the plaintiff $2000, in consideration of her removing from the State of Hew Jersey, and taking up her residence at Corning, in this State, where the intestate resided.
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ACTIOH" brought to enforce a paroi agreement alleged to have been made by Conrad Honness, the defendants’ intestate, to give the plaintiff $2000, in consideration of her removing from the State of Hew Jersey, and taking up her residence at Corning, in this State, where the intestate resided. The complaint alleged that in the month of July, 1867, the plaintiff was, and for many years prior to that time had been, a resident of the State of Hew Jersey, residing there with her husband, who was a brother-in-law of the defendants’ intestate, being the brother of the said Margaret Honness, then the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Johnson, J.
The bargain finally settled and agreed upon, between the plaintiff and the defendants’ intestate, as established by the verdict of the jury, was, *335that the plaintiff should consent to give up her home and residence, in the State of Hew Jersey, and remove to Corning, in the State of Hew York, with her husband, and reside there as long as the intestate lived, and receive, in consideration thereof, the sum of $2000, at the death of the intestate. This was the final agreement, which the plaintiff, as the jury have found, fully performed on her part. The intestate was a man…
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