Kopp v. Traders Gate City National Bank

Respondent, Margaret Kopp, filed her demand of $28,000 in the Probate Court of Jackson County against the estate of John J. O'Connell, who was respondent's uncle by marriage and who died testate July 24, 1945. The claim or demand was for the reasonable value of services to O'Connell and to his wife (respondent's aunt) during their lives, pursuant to an alleged oral promise by O'Connell and wife that, in consideration of claimant's services, "they would leave her all of their combined estate." The probate court found for claimant-respondent. Upon appeal to and trial de novo in the Circuit…