Schempp v. Beardsley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from, the allowance, in part, of a claim of $17,000 against the estate of Agnes Coffey, deceased, taken by the defendants to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and heard before Burpee, J. Judgment that the claim be allowed, to the amount of $12,500.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
In 1885 Agnes Coffey, a single woman of sixty-five, who had not heard from any of her relatives for thirty years and did not know that any of them were still alive, orally agreed with Adam Schempp and his wife that if they would live with her in a house which she was ready to buy for that purpose, and there support her properly as long as she should live, she would give them all her property when she died. She bought a house, a few weeks later, and they, relying on the agreement, moved into it, and supported her there properly as long as she lived. A few years after the purchase she had their…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Grant v. GrantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Hull v. ThomsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1910
- Wiggin v. Federal Stock & Grain Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1905
- Clark v. TerrySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1856
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- Wolfe v. Wallingford Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1938
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