Cogswell v. Hall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the executor under the will of Hannah Etta Cogswell, mother of the plaintiff, on an alleged oral agreement made with the plaintiff by the defendant’s testatrix. Writ dated June 30, 1902. At the trial in the Superior Court before BeOourcy, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $9,816.41. .The defendant alleged exceptions raising the questions stated by the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
On the death of his father the plaintiff who appears to have been his only heir at law entered into an agreement with his mother of whose will the defendant is executor, by which *456she received the sum of $6,000, being the price of certain real estate left by her husband who died intestate, and which was subject to her right of dower. The details of the transaction are not fully disclosed, but from the testimony of the plaintiff it may be inferred, that of this sum she was to have the income of $2,000 during her life, in place of her life interest in the land, and at her death the principal was…
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