Leh v. Dyer

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Defendants Dyer appeal from a jury verdict and resultant judgment against them in the amount of $35,315.00 in an action for breach of an oral contract to support plaintiff for life. We affirm.

*67No contention is made that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. In 1964, plaintiff, then 68, and defendants, her granddaughter and grandson-in-law, entered into the oral contract upon which this suit was based. Plaintiff agreed to supply $10,000 to be used as a down payment on a house to be purchased by defendants, and defendants agreed to allow plaintiff to live…