Pantel v. Bower

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

This is an appeal from a ruling sustaining a demurrer to the plaintiff’s evidence. The action was for specific performance of an oral contract under which plaintiff claims the right to one-half of all the property owned by the husband of Mrs. Bower at the time of his death.

The plaintiff’s real name before her marriage was Stella Ertz. When she was two years old she was taken into the family of defendant and raised and treated by Mrs. Bower and her husband as their own child. She went by the name of Stella Bower; believed until she was about…