Ostrander v. Coppins

This is a motion for judgment on the pleadings in an action brought for the specific performance of an oral agreement claimed to have been made between Ada I. Johnson Ostrander, plaintiff, and Maud A. Johnson, plaintiff’s mother, now deceased. Plaintiff alleged that her mother agreed to convey jointly with her husband (plaintiff’s stepfather) two parcels of real estate, parts of Block 68 in the city of Syracuse, N. Y. to the plaintiff subject to the existing mortgage, in return for the agreement of the plaintiff to aid and assist her mother during her lifetime, pay certain expenses in…