Ferguson v. Hilderbrand

Carr, P. J.,

— This is an action in equity for the specific performance of an administrator’s contract to sell the real property of his decedent. Now, preliminarily objecting to the bill, the administrator raises the question of our jurisdiction, and in addition interposes the defense of the statute of frauds.

It appears from the bill that Stella Hilderbrand, late of Washington Township in this county, died on November 11, 1950, intestate, seized of a house and lot of land in that township, and that on April 3, 1951, Ewing K. Newcomer, a member of this bar then acting as attorney for her…