Vandercook v. Kurtz

This is a suit in equity for specific performance of an alleged oral contract to give or bequeath real property.

It is claimed that Esther M. Vandercook, deceased, entered into an oral agreement with plaintiff, her son, to leave the farm she owned to him if he would live with her, take care of her, and work her farm during the rest of her natural life. The agreement was alleged to have been made in 1926, and from then until her death in March, 1940, plaintiff lived with his mother and worked the farm. Mrs. Vandercook died intestate and this suit was brought against her administrator and heirs.…