Kempe v. Hack

Appellants, to be hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs, by this action seek to compel the specific performance of a contract claimed to have been made between their mother, Catharine Hack, and John Hack, both deceased. The defendants and respondents are respect-*302tively the sole devisee and legatee and the special administrator of John Hack. The decision below was against plaintiffs and they appeal from the denial of their motion for new trial.

A most novel situation is presented. The alleged contract is a special act of the legislature. It is claimed that thereby the mother of plaintiffs was…