Snyder v. Warde, Admx.

As the present case comes to us, we take it as settled that there was an oral contract made- between plaintiff and Harper on January 1, 1944, whereby Harper agreed to leave, by will, one-half of his estate to plaintiff in consideration of her continuing to live with him and continuing to render the services which she was then performing. Although the making of the contract was denied in the answer in the Court of Common Pleas, both that court and the Court of Appeals held that the evidence established the existence of the contract. .Likewise, the defense in the answer, that plaintiff had…