Hanson v. Urner
Court of Appeals of Maryland
1Opinion of the CourtDelaplaine, J.
This suit was brought in the Circuit Court for Washington County by Mrs. Mary Katherine Heggan Hanson, of Baltimore, against the executors of the estate of Lora A. Hammaker, deceased, and certain beneficiaries named in her will to obtain specific performance of an oral contract by which the testatrix agree to leave certain real and personal property to complainant on condition that she would come to Hagerstown and serve as her housekeeper and nurse as long as she lived.
Complainant is not related to the testatrix; she had married a son of the testatrix but had been divorced. During the period…
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