McCullough v. McCullough

This action was brought to specifically enforce an oral contract to make a will. The defendants were the trustees and the beneficiaries under the last will and testament of Laura M. Gaudette, deceased. The trial was to the court, without a jury, and resulted in a decree awarding to the plaintiff what is referred to as the Eldridge avenue home and fifty thousand dollars in money, from which decree the defendants have appealed.

The facts essential to be stated are these: Edmund Gaudette and Laura M. Gaudette were married in 1883, and, for some years prior to Mr. Gaudette’s death, in 1916,…