Rutledge v. Hoffman

OPINION

By MATTHEWS, PJ.

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment in favor of plaintiff for breach of contract.

The plaintiff alleged that the defendant’s decedent on November 1st, 1911, orally promised to pay the plaintiff’s decedent, who was her sister, the sum of $4000.00, in consideration of her agreement not to institute an action to contest the will of Mary Barbara Hoffman, their mother, and not to make any effort to vacate or set aside a deed, conveying a certain farm from their mother to the defendant’s decedent. The plaintiff alleged that certain partial payments had been…