Olsen v. Hoag

This suit was brought to enforce specific performance of an oral contract to devise real and personal property to appellant.

The complaint alleges that, on February 28, 1921, Mary E. Cooney, mother of Roberts J. Cooney, died, and thereafter up to September, 1921, Roberts J. Cooney lived with appellant in her home, and that she provided him with room and board; that he was ill, frail, unable to do manual labor, and appellant nursed him, provided medicines, attended to all his wants, and gave him three hundred dollars in money; that, prior to Mrs. Cooney’s death, appellant had nursed her, and…