Duncan v. Duncan

Plaintiff filed a bill for specific performance of an oral agreement claimed to have been entered into between James Duncan, the deceased, and himself.

James Duncan during his lifetime was a resident of Clare, Michigan. Pie owned considerable business property in Clare and also a 360-acre farm in Isabella county, Michigan. His wife died in 1928 and he never remarried, nor did he have any children. At the time of the transaction complained of in this cause, plaintiff was the principal of the high school at Fowlerville, Michigan, and took the principalship with the understanding that in case of…