Potter v. Campbell

This was a bill in equity by the defendants in error against the plaintiff in error, seeking specific performance by her of a contract of her deceased husband, Darwin H. Campbell, who, it is claimed, in his lifetime, in consideration of a stock of goods worth $8,000, delivered and transferred to him by his father, one of the defendants in error, had agreed to support him and his wife during their natural lives. This supposed contract was entered into in 1872, and the support to defendants in error was furnished by Darwin H. Campbell, the deceased, during the latter’s life and until his death,…