Lambert v. Lambert

This, bill in equity was brought to obtain relief in the nature of specific performance of an oral promise by a father to make a will devising to one of his sons a poultry farm located in the city of Warwick in this state. After a hearing in the superior court on bill, answer and evidence, a decree was entered denying and dismissing the bill of complaint. The cause is here on the complainant’s appeal from that decree.

The complainant Leroy L. Lambert is a son of Daniel J. Lambert, Sr., who died March 18, 1946 at the age of eighty-six. The respondents are Daniel J. Lambert, Jr. and Clara A.…