Predmore v. Hamley
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment of the'county court of Fond du Lac county: A. E. Rici-iter, Judge. Charles Brill died intestate on March 29, 1922. A claim was filed against his estate based upon services rendered between 1904 and 1922, the claimant being a cousin of the deceased. Deceased had resided on a farm near Rosendale, Wisconsin. The claimant lived with her husband in Simpson, Minnesota.
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Appeals from a judgment of the'county court of Fond du Lac county: A. E. Rici-iter, Judge. Charles Brill died intestate on March 29, 1922. A claim was filed against his estate based upon services rendered between 1904 and 1922, the claimant being a cousin of the deceased. Deceased had resided on a farm near Rosendale, Wisconsin. The claimant lived with her husband in Simpson, Minnesota. During the period of years between the. dates mentioned, claimant visited at the home of deceased. about three weeks every year, and while there, according to her testimony, she did all the housework and at…
1Opinion of the CourtJones, J.
In this case both parties appeal from the judgment. The plaintiff claims that judgment should have been rendered in the way of specific performance, giving to her one fourth of the estate according to the alleged agreement. The defendant appeals, urging that the plaintiff was entitled to no recovery whatever.
Both parties are agreed that the verbal contract was rendered void because it was an attempted contract for -the transfer of lands or an interest therein, which must be in writing. Sec. 2304, Stats.; Estate of Leu, 172 Wis. 530, 179 N. W. 796; Martin v. Estate of Martin, 108 Wis. 284, 84…
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