Ennis v. Chichester
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Howard Chichester, individually and as executor, and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 30th day of August, 1918, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term. .
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, P. J.:
This is an appeal from a judgment decreeing the specific performance of an oral contract alleged to have been made by one William H. Brown, ■ whereby he agreed that the plaintiff should upon his death receive all of his estate. The defendants are the executor and legatees under the will of said Brown.
The plaintiff is the daughter of Robert McDowell Cugle. Her mother died in 1889 and after her death plaintiff, who was then a child of tender years, continued to live for some time with plaintiff’s maternal grandmother and her aunt, the sister of her mother, then Helen Cook, now…
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