Salsbury v. Sackrider

Plaintiff filed a bill for specific performance of an oral contract with her father, Fred C. Sackrider, deceased, in which it was agreed in 1918 that if she and her husband would come to her father’s farm and make a home for him, he would give her the farm.

Plaintiff and her husband came to the farm, managed it, made a home for deceased, and stayed with him for 18 years until his death in 1936. At that time it was found that deceased had left a will, executed three years before his death, devising the property in question to Fred T. Sackrider, his son, and to his son’s wife. Other property…