Fassberger v. Sullivan

The within action was instituted by writ, summons and complaint dated May 27,1971. It is one in which the plaintiff is seeking to recover damages of the defendant for an alleged breach of agreement. The plaintiff is the mother of the defendant’s former wife, Frances Elizabeth Fassberger Sullivan; thus there was a past relationship between the plaintiff and the defendant of mother-in-law and son-in-law. That relationship between the parties came to an end in a dissolution of the marriage by a decree of a California court in October, 1971.

On May 13, 1956, the defendant in his own handwriting…