Van Dyne v. Nelson

This action was brought to compel defendants’ testator (who was originally the defendant, but who died during the pendency of the action) to convey to plaintiff the farm on which she resides pursuant to an alleged contract; also to account for and pay to plaintiff the value of a life insurance policy which plaintiff alleges that defendants’ testator agreed, and failed, to procure for her benefit.

The main facts in the case are sharply in dispute. The following facts, however, are undisputed: That defendants’ testator was a brother of plaintiff; that the plaintiff and an older sister lived with…