Bicknell v. Guenther

This action was brought for specific performance of an alleged oral contract wherein plaintiff would perform work and services on decedent’s farm and she, in turn, would devise all of her property to him. The defendant is the administrator of her estate. Both parties *750are appealing and will be designated by their titles in the original action.

The evidence shows that plaintiff had worked as a logger from 1930 to 1937. He had known the decedent and her husband for several years and owned a 40-acre tract adjoining theirs. The husband of decedent died in March, 1937. The plaintiff went to work for…