Curtis v. Hennequin

Plaintiff, as the third-party beneficiary of an alleged oral agreement between her mother and father, seeks to impress a trust upon property left by her father upon his demise.

She claims that prior to the institution of a divorce action by her mother against her father in 1924, the parents entered into an arrangement whereby the mother waived all right of support for herself and plaintiff in consideration for which the father agreed that upon his death he would leave one half of his estate to the plaintiff. Instead, by will which has been duly admitted to probate, the father devised and…