Sackett v. Rodeck

Mr. Justice Burke,

sitting for Mr. Justice Denison, delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant in error was plaintiff in the trial court and is hereinafter so designated. She brought this action to enforce an alleged contract of the deceased to make a will in her favor. To review the judgment therein entered against them the administrator and the heirs prosecute this writ.

*426This plaintiff and the wife of Christopher Irving, deceased, were sisters by adoption. Plaintiff and her husband had lived at the Irving home and the family relation was as close and intimate between all these people as…