Robertson v. Hackensack Trust Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

The complainant seeks to enforce an alleged oral contract made with her father, the defendants’ testator, that “she would receive from her father, after his death everything that he owned” in consideration of her agreement to give up her home in Nyack, N. Y., live with him and his wife and take care of them for the rest of their lives.

Following the complainant’s divorce from her first husband in 1928, her father and mother sold their house and came to live with her in Nyack. In 1931 the father inherited property in Hackensack in which all three…