Halsey v. . Snell

We have set out in some detail the portions of the evidence relating to the two exceptions we think it proper to consider.

■ (a) An aggrieved party may recover for the breach of a contract, made upon sufficient consideration, that the promisor will make him the beneficiary of a bequest or devise in his will, but such a contract must be established by the mode of proof legally permissible in establishing other contracts.

In the case at bar the defendant introduced, in rebuttal, evidence tending to show that the financial worth of deceased at the time of the alleged contract was little more than…