Ehling v. Diebert

The bill of complaint seeks the specific performance of an alleged oral agreement to make a will in favor of complainant.

Complainant, Frank Ehling, at the age of fourteen years in the year 1913 entered the employment of one Ignatz Kulat, who operated a meat market in Jersey City. His position at the time was that of "order boy." He stated that he also drove Mr. Kulat's private car for Mr. and Mrs. Kulat. Complainant continued to be employed until shortly before Mr. Kulat's death which occurred in 1917. After Mr. Kulat's death, his widow, Mrs. Kulat, continued the business. Several months…