Forler v. Williams

The bill herein was filed for an accounting, to determine the ownership of a real estate mortgage, and to have' defendant specifically perform a verbal agreement to purchase the undivided interests of plaintiffs in a parcel of real estate. Catherine Williams was the wife of defendant and the mother of plaintiffs by a previous husband, and, by her will, she devised the homestead to defendant and her three children, share and share alike. Plaintiffs claim that defendant, after probate of the will, agreed verbally to purchase their interests in the property and pay each of them $2,500, and they…