Blackwell v. Keys

This is an appeal from a dismissal of a bill of complaint in Wayne circuit court. The circuit judge, sitting in chancery, heard testimony upon plaintiff’s pleadings which sought specific performance of a claimed oral agreement by a deceased person to leave all her property to. 2 people not related to her in exchange for certain services pertaining to her property.

The deceased was one Mary Holms who died in 1951 leaving a considerable amount of rental property. She left a will by which defendants McBrady and Adams, and Albert S. Taylor (decedent’s brother, now deceased and represented herein…