Pancoast v. Eldridge

This is the second appeal in this cause. Detailed facts are stated in 134 Okla. 247, 273 P. 255. Originally Eldridge sought specific performance of an alleged oral contract to devise property, real, personal and mixed, and in the alternative “for damages for the breach of said contract * * * to the amount of the value of * * * the property.” Eldridge alleged (a) performance of the contract on his part by labor during the years 1903 to 1924, inclusive, as a farm hand, cook, and nurse for George W. Brown, deceased; (b) the death of Brown, and (c) failure of ¡Drown to make a will devising and…