Sheehan v. Nelson

Taylor, C.

Plaintiff, James F. Sheehan, began this action in 1916 against his father, James Sheehan, to establish and enforce an alleged oral contract, claimed to have been made in 1895, by which he agreed to remain with his parents and care for them during the remainder of their lives and to work upon and operate the farm of his father, and by which the father agreed that if plaintiff performed his part of the contract he should become the owner in fee of the farm at the death of the parent who lived the longest.

The Sheehan family consisted of the father, mother and two children, James F.…