Jacquemin v. Mercantile Commerce Bank & Trust Co.

[ 790] Arthur Jacquemin (plaintiff-appellant, and hereinafter called plaintiff) appealed from the order of the circuit court sustaining the defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s petition in the latter’s action for specific performance of his alleged oral contract with John Sheehan, Jr. (now deceased), that the latter would make a will devising his .entire estate (excepting certain small bequests) to plaintiff. The respondent-defendant Bank is executor under the last will of John Sheehan, Jr., (who died Feb. 13, 1948) and the individual respondents-defendants are. the nephew and nieces of…