Stoddard v. Thompson

. Beck, J.

— The petition alleges that defendant Thompson proposed to plaintiff that, in consideration of $3,000 in notes and- demands to be transferred by plaintiff to him,,he would provide for and maintain plaintiff and his wife during their lives and would maintain and educate a grand-daughter of the plaintiff, then a member of his family, until she arrived at the age of eighteen. This proposition was accepted , by plaintiff, and a contract was signed by defendant, to that effect, but was not executed by plaintiff and, in fact, was not completed and delivered, and was not intended to be…