McDonald v. Scheifler

Plaintiff filed a bill for specific performance of an oral agreement and alleges that he and Daniel J. Miller had been friends for many years; that in August, 1927, Miller was the owner of a lot at Wolf lake and agreed with plaintiff that if plaintiff would construct a cottage or home thereon, it would be a home for both of them and would become the property of plaintiff after the death of Miller; that plaintiff constructed the cottage, while Miller furnished the money to purchase the materials ; that the cottage was constructed and the parties lived therein until 1939 when plaintiff married…