White v. Smith

This action was instituted by respondent against William C. Smith, administrator of the estate of William Peterson, deceased, and his legal heirs, for the specific performance of an alleged oral agreement whereby the deceased was to make provision for respondent to inherit all his property in consideration that she come and make her home with him. Shortly after her mother’s death, in 1903, respondent, then being nine years old, went to live with the Petersons, where she lived until 1910, when the deceased and his wife separated and were divorced. Thereafter respondent made her home with the…