Clawson v. Brewer

Emery, V. C.

This is a bill filed by the complainant against the executors and devisees of his father’s widow, complainant’s stepmother, for the specific performance of a parol agreement to devise to him, at her death, the property she received from her husband’s estate, on his death, by his will. The complainant’s father, Henry T. Clawson, at the time of his death, August 12th, 1897, held the title to his dwelling-house, on ITalsey street, in the city of Newark, and to a factory property on Hackett street, and had, besides, the title to personal property (mainly tools, &c., in the factory),…