Goodenough's Admx. v. Vermont-People's National Bank

The administratrix of the estate of John A. Goodenough brings this action against the defendant as the successor of the Vermont National Bank. The claim is predicated upon an alleged oral agreement made with the plaintiff by Mr. Averill, president of the bank aforesaid on March 12, 1912, of the following tenor: If the plaintiff would go into the state of New York and there institute legal proceedings to establish as a lost instrument a certain will of a Mrs. Wallace, which will was said to contain a bequest of $75,000 to said Goodenough, and which the plaintiff then claimed had been…