Markson v. Markson's Furniture Stores, Inc.

This is an action brought upon an agreement made in April, 1929, whereby the defendant, a domestic corporation, promised the plaintiff that if she survived her husband it would pay her the sum of “ One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) each and every week during her natural life or as long as she or any of her descendants, owned any of the stock of Markson’s Furniture Stores, Inc.” The plaintiff alleges that on the 22d day of June, 1929, her husband died and thereafter the defendant duly performed said contract until the 23d day of July, 1932, at which time the defendant refused to continue the pay…