Richards v. O'BOYLE

This is an action for specific performance of an alleged oral agreement between the plaintiff and the defendants’ decedent, Gertrude Cook. Plaintiff alleges that the decedent agreed to devise to plaintiff a certain residence in return for services to be rendered by the plaintiff.

The decedent was an invalid confined to a bed or a wheelchair. After her husband died, she had a succession of employees and finally asked the plaintiff, a registered nurse, to live with her and care for her. She sold her home at Higgins Lake and moved to Harrisville, the home of the plaintiff, and purchased the house…