Ver Standig v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.

This is an action for the specific performance of an oral contract to devise real estate. It is alleged that the contract was made by Cora Leon Weil, deceased, and Bernard Ver Standig, plaintiff’s husband, and which the deceased agreed to devise a store and apartment building at De Baliviere and De Giverville Avenues in St. Louis to plaintiff in consideration of services to be rendered to deceased by plaintiff’s husband. Bernard Ver Standig first filed a claim against Mrs. Weil’s estate for the services rendered. He recovered, but his claim was ultimately knocked out by the St. Louis Court of…