Gramann v. Borgmann

This is a suit in equity to enforce specific performance of a contract to make a testamentary disposition of real estate.

Plaintiff! alleges that on or about May 17, 1872, John Shafer, who was her stepfather and who had been her guardian since the death of her own father, induced her to make settlement of the estate which she had received from her father and to convey to him valuable real estate situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, upon consideration of his verbal promise to provide by will that she should, at the time of his death, receive as large a portion of his estate as any of his own…