Rundell v. McDonald

This is an action to enforce performance of an oral contract made by plaintiff with his aunt—who, as his father’s widow, was likewise plaintiff’s stepmother—whereby the latter promised to devise to plaintiff, by her last will and testament, the parcel of land in controversy. It is sought to impress the property with a trust in favor of plaintiff and thus to secure to him the benefit of the contract pursuant to which he deeded the land to his stepmother on the strength of her promise to give it back again by devising it to him. She did, indeed, make a will whereby she devised the land to…