Outland v. Outland

Plaintiff, by bill in chancery, seeks to enforce against the estate of Catherine Boyd and her heirs an oral agreement'which he claims was made between him and Mrs. Boyd, a widowed sister, in 1915, by the terms of which he was to come and live with her and assist her in whatever way he could, and upon her death was to have her home in Grand Rapids. The chancellor in his opinion recognized the rule that a -court of equity might compel the specific performance of a contract of this character, if the same were established with reasonable certainty, but concluded that plaintiff had

“failed to…