Pershall v. Elliott

In 1902 the plaintiff married Henry L. Pershall. Pershall’s father, David B. Pershall, lived with them. In 1906 the father purchased a house in Brooklyn for the sum of $13,000. The plaintiff and her husband, as well as the father, lived together in that house until plaintiff’s husband died in 1923. During that, time plaintiff’s husband made many valuable improvements in the house. The plaintiff claims that these improvements were made under an oral agreement that at the father’s death she and her husband should have the right to purchase the house at the price paid for it by the father. No…