Mayer v. Taylor

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action to enforce an alleged contract between plaintiff’s mother and her brother and his wife, all three of whom are now dead, under the terms of which plaintiff laid claim to all of the considerable estates of his deceased uncle and aunt.

Plaintiff’s petition alleged that in 1892 he was a minor and school boy in Belgium, that his mother was a resident of Germany, and that she had loaned large sums of money to her brother, Joseph Groll, who had emigrated to America and had become a resident of Topeka and had married there.

Plaintiff…