Baumgartner v. Seidel

This cause is before us on respondents' appeal from a final decree of the superior court granting the complainant's prayer for enforcement of an oral agreement to devise a certain parcel of real estate located in the city of Pawtucket, and for incidental relief. The respondents are the brother and sister of the complainant, their respective spouses, and Lawrence A. McCarthy, who is administrator c.t.a. of the estate of complainant's deceased father, Gustav Baumgartner.

The bill alleges that in February 1931, following the death of his wife, Gustav Baumgartner promised and agreed that if the…